>>...Amphetamines used to treat "hyperactive" children (US). A precursor
to Ritalin, Charles Bradley of Rhode Island reports that Benzedrine causes
a "spectacular change in behavior."
Dr. Earnest Hooten, Harvard, is quoted in the New York times as saying
"compulsory sterilization alone would serve in the case of the insane and
mentally deficient, but it is very difficult to enforce such a measure in a
democracy, unless it has been preceded by an educational campaign...a
biological purge is the essential prerequisite for a social and spiritual
salvation."
Madison Grant's Conquest of a Continent ("Racial History of the US") is
published in Berlin. It is greeted by Dr. Eugen Fisher with "No one has as
much reason to note the work of this man with the keenest of attention as
does a German of todayin a time when the racial idea has become one of the
chief foundations of the National Socialist State's population policies."
In America, the Eugenics Record Office and the Eugenics Research
Association send a filer to 3,000 U.S. high schools, encouraging the
screening of an English version of the Nazi propaganda film Erbkrank
("Hereditary Defective"). The film plays 28 times in 1937-38.
Leading government personnel and psychiatrists discuss elimination of the
mentally ill (Germany). Leading psychiatrists Max de Crinis (professor and
chairman of the department of psychiatry at Berlin University and later
supervisor of killing center at Sonnenstein), Mau, Kihn, Pohlisch and
Schneider get together with anthropologists and two directors of mental
hospitals to draft a formal law concerning euthanasia.
1938
Cerletti and Bini develop ECT and do the first actual ECT on a human in
Italy, after learning that pigs in slaughterhouses were not killed but
merely stunned by electric current before they are slaughtered.
German born and educated US psychiatrist Franz Kallman calls for the "legal
power" to sterilize "tainted children and siblings of schizophrenics" and
to prevent marriages involving "schizoid eccentrics and borderline cases." <<
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