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  • noun a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark

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Examples

  • First we Cardiazolize them Cardiazol was the British version of Metrazol, then we insulinate them, and now we are proceeding to electrocute them.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Meduna treated five more patients with similar results, and by the end of 1934 had found a better drug than camphor: Metrazol, a newly marketed cardiac drug that at high doses caused seizures.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • But in the larger world, Metrazol therapy joined the insulin treatment to offer hope where there had previously been none.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • And so it was that doctors turned to shocking therapies - insulin shock therapy, Metrazol shock therapy, electroconvulsive shock therapy, and of course, most shocking of all - the lobotomy.

    Medpundit 2005

  • Metrazol had a lower mortality level, but ensuing convulsions led to various fractures and respiratory problems.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Metrazol had a lower mortality level, but ensuing convulsions led to various fractures and respiratory problems.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • There is no solid evidence that lecithin, choline, Metrazol, hyperbaric oxygen, vasopressin, or procaine is effective in reducing cognitive dysfunction or improving the general health of patients with primary degenerative dementia 814.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • Metrazol (60 mg/kg body weight) is the maximum toxic dose which induced convulsions in mice with minimum mortality rate, whereas 70 mg/kg body weight is the minimum lethal dose causing 99% mortality of the mice.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, Tofranil, Wellbutrin, Elavil, Metrazol in combination with unilateral ECT (during a two-week voluntary in-patient course of treatment at a regional Mood Disorders clinic),

    signandsight.com 2009

  • So I ran gerbils through a maze, timed them, and then injected them with Metrazol (the brand name for pentylenetetrazol, a central nervous system stimulant), and then ran them through the maze again.

    A Life in Pages 2009

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