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Electro-convulsive equipment |
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The electro-convulsive
therapy started in Brazil in 1934. This was a psychiatric treatment using
an electric shock in the brain, by means of two electric threads applied
in the brain's temporal regions.
The electric current was applied through a specially built machine that had a chronometer and a voltmeter. With this treatment, the desired result was that the patient, after going through a widespread convulsion, would overcome the crisis. The electro-convulsive therapy was used in the "Colônia
Juliano Moreira" until the eighties, after which it was abolished.
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