Couple of corrections ECT didn't arrive until 1938 The ECT procedure was first conducted in 1938 by Italian neuro-psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti[18] and rapidly replaced less safe and effective forms of biological treatments in use at the time. Cerletti, who had been using electric shocks to produce seizures in animal experiments, and his assistant Lucio Bini at Sapienza University of Rome developed the idea of using electricity as a substitute for metrazol in convulsive therapy and, in 1938, experimented for the first time on a person affected by delusions. The Guinea pig club was form by Archibald McIndoe's in East Grinstead where he did facial plastic surgery, as it was so new, the patients called themselves the Guinea pigs. Rauceby specialised in body and limb repairs in what was Orchard house and was a branch of the club. The rest of the hospital provided general hospital and psychiatric care for the RAF. It's most well known patient being Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron fame
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Couple of corrections
ECT didn't arrive until 1938
The ECT procedure was first conducted in 1938 by Italian neuro-psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti[18] and rapidly replaced less safe and effective forms of biological treatments in use at the time. Cerletti, who had been using electric shocks to produce seizures in animal experiments, and his assistant Lucio Bini at Sapienza University of Rome developed the idea of using electricity as a substitute for metrazol in convulsive therapy and, in 1938, experimented for the first time on a person affected by delusions.
The Guinea pig club was form by Archibald McIndoe's in East Grinstead where he did facial plastic surgery, as it was so new, the patients called themselves the Guinea pigs. Rauceby specialised in body and limb repairs in what was Orchard house and was a branch of the club. The rest of the hospital provided general hospital and psychiatric care for the RAF. It's most well known patient being Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron fame
I write this as the hospitals joint historian and former employee