One of the main reasons that the use of ect has declined since the 1950s, beyond the emergence of antidepressant drugs, is the loss of that often follows the procedure. this loss is usually temporary but sometimes permanent.

memory

Electroconvulsive therapy is a treatment where small electric currents triggers a small seizure with small electric currents. Memory loss is one of the side effects of ECT. Some patients may have difficulty recalling events that happened right before, in weeks or months before treatment or rarely, from previous years.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t