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Siege of Tobruch was a month old when the Axis attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which...
...have been given to patients abroad and in the U.S. The proportion of improvement depends upon the type and length of illness, is about the same as for insulin and metrazol-estimates range roughly from IS to 50%. But of course psychiatrists do not yet know how permanent any shock treatment is over a period of years...
Although electric shock may not replace the standard insulin treatment, most psychiatrists think it far superior to metrazol. Its advantages: 1) the convulsions are not usually as violent as those produced by metrazol; 2) since patients lose consciousness immediately, they do not remember the frightening "aura" that precedes a metrazol convulsion; 3) electric treatment is much cheaper than insulin or metrazol-a machine costs less than $300. But electric shock is safe only in the hands of a trained psychiatrist...
Eugene A. Stead, Jr., for an investigation on circulatory collapse and shock...
Morale. The Germans had another victory, perhaps dampened by their losses. The British had had their worst shock since Dunkirk. But neither may have as much effect on the fortunes of the war as the encouragement which the German victory gave Spain and Vichy to aid the Axis, as the alarm which may lead Turkey to give in instead of fighting...