* This brought electroshock therapy full circle
to its earliest incarnation as an exorcism technique. The first
recorded use of medical electrocution was by a Swiss doctor
practicing in the 1700s. Believing that mental illness was caused
by the devil, he had a patient hold on to a wire that he powered
with a static electricity machine; one jolt of electricity was
given for each demon. The patient was then pronounced cured.
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