Report on Cardiazol Treatment and on the Present Application of Hypoglycæmic Shock Treatment in Schizophrenia

This is a remarkable book which contains a wealth of accurate data, gathered from dependable and well known authors, a book which bears the backing for accuracy of the English board of control.

The authors tried to be objective as far as is humanly possible and to refrain from personal prejudice. Matter of fact objection is raised to taking very much from the literature of the originators for granted and neglecting to point to the differences which are obvious in the "history" of the development of the treatment as well as the theory. The technic and the results from various authors are stated as completely and efficiently as possible. It seems sometimes that the description of the rather simple technic of the shock produced through metrazol alone is too detailed and elaborately stated. With the same extreme accuracy, the authors describe the technic of the shock produced through insulin treatment,