Attendant Clement and Nurse Leah Lewis inject a patient with insulin to induce coma as part of a treatment for insanity at the Camarillo State Hospital, 1940

Title: Attendant Clement and Nurse Leah Lewis inject a patient with insulin to induce coma as part of a treatment for insanity at the Camarillo State Hospital, 1940
Date Created: February 20, 1940
Date: 1940-02-20
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Insulin shock therapy; insulin coma therapy
This photograph appears with the article "Insulin rocks the foundations of reason and yet seems to restore sanity in many cases. Science today is engaged in no more exciting adventure." Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 1940: I6.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: The insulin is injected. In a short while a sort of mental earthquake will shake the patient's brain. Attendant Clement handles hypo and Nurse Lewis the flask.
Text from negative sleeve: Insulin treatment for insanity; Camarillo State Hospital; Sunday Magazine; Feb 20, 1940

Genre: black-and-white photographs
news photographs
Names: Lewis, Leah
Camarillo State Hospital
Location: Camarillo (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.161921
Latitude: -119.043814
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Mental institutions--California--Camarillo
Mentally ill persons--California--Camarillo
Shock therapy--California--Camarillo

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: C1429_b3155_neg21417_frame6
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hjd5v
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