A closer look
Before electroshock therapy existed, psychiatrists figured the absolute best way to cure schizophrenia was by aggressively inducing violent seizures using mothball chemicals. Ladislas Meduna pioneered this unhinged approach, noting that epilepsy and schizophrenia rarely occurred together. His solution? Inject patients with toxic doses of camphor to artificially trigger massive, bone-breaking convulsions, hoping the ensuing neurological chaos would somehow reset the brain like a glitchy router.
