| 单词 | insulin treatment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinsulin treatment insulin treatment n. (also insulin shock treatment) a treatment for mental illness consisting of a course of artificially produced insulin comas (see quot. 1951). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > shock treatments shock therapy1917 insulin treatment1938 photoshock1953 1938 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 39 1 (title) Insulin shock treatment of schizophrenic patients. 1940 Ann. Internal Med. 14 393 The insulin treatment of schizophrenia owes its origin to an accidental observation made by Sakel in his treatment of morphine addicts. 1951 F. Hopkins in E. N. Chamberlain Text-bk. Med. ix. 692 Insulin shock treatment..consists of the induction of coma by the injection of insulin. When the optimum dose for the individual case has been ascertained, a coma is induced each day for five or six days a week until a course of 50 or thereabouts has been given. 1958 I. Murdoch Bell xxvi. 302 Catherine had been having insulin treatment and was continually under the influence of drugs. < as lemmas |
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