Insulin shock : Shock treatment of schizophrenia devised and used by Austrian psychiatrist Manfred Sakel in the 1930s and 1940s in which large doses of insulin were given to the patient until seizures and a transient hypoglycaemic coma were administered to the patient. After World War II insulin was replaced by cardiozole or metrazol, an analeptic substance obtained in the laboratory, similar to camphor, which also caused strong seizures frequently attenuated by curare. Electroshock also began to be used as the film "Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest" has shown.
