electro-men

Our clinic can shock the bad habit away

Relax, I think I can correct this arrhythmia. One deep breath in, then out.

Testing the electric fence. Yeah it's on.

Restrained to minimize the effects of tonic-clonic seizure, the doctor applies a short burst of electric current to the patient's temples, causing the brain to fit, or seizure. A brief grimace followed by stiffening of the limb muscles is all that is seen. The patient will have no recollection of the event. Thousands of these procedures are performed in psychiatric facilities even to this day. No restraint is necessary thanks to modern muscle relaxants.

Electro-Acupuncture. Needles are inserted directly into the subject's nerves and electric currents are fed into them.

Lightning Reaction game, or defibrillator? He's not so sure

Charlie is showing-off his implantable defibrillator.

A mild cardioversion

Electric shock treatment, 1960's style. No muscle relaxants are used and the nurses standing by will hold the man down when the shock is delivered. (this is a real photo BTW, not AI. )

At the ante-natal clinic, this young dad-to-be has agreed to try the labor-pains electrical simulator. As the current is increased he's not so sure of the expreience.