Rome, Italy

First Use of Electroshock Memorial Tablet

This marble memorial tablet can be seen on the ground floor of the Clinica delle Malattie Nervose e Mentali in Rome, inside an administrative office, just passed the main entrance, on the left. It rememebers that in this room, in April 1938, Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini performed the first electroshock in history, with this primordial apparatus.

First use of Electroshock memorial tablet, Rome (by Francesco Saverio Bersani).JPG
  • Photo (November 2018)
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