Caption
Nurse who volunteered for experiment with drugs is tested for reaction time. Caffeine first speeds up reaction, later slows it down. Reliance on "wake up" pile for more than short period is self-defeating.
Release Date
September 17, 1957
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
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Caption
Medical men are becoming alarmed at the desire of many "normal" people to banish all anxiety with a pill. To them Dr. Lehmann issues a stern warning: tranquilizing drugs for the special purpose for which they were created have surpassed our boldest expectations, but they are not the magical stuff which will deliver modem man from all anxiety and fear; used indiscriminately, they can do grave harm.
Date
June 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB81148
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Dr. Heinz Lehmann, clinical director of Verdun Hospital, has achieved spectacular results with tranquilizer chlorpromazine. Drug makes patient calmer, more co-operative, hastens recovery. Discharge rate is up.
Date
June 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB81160
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176594
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Certain drugs increase suggestibility. Tape recorded instructions (to keep test standard) repeat monotonously: "You are falling forward"; ruler on wall measures amount of sway.
Date
June 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB81161
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176595
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Insanity can now be produced artificially for the purposes of experimental research. Psychologist David Knight studies phial containing L.S.D. 25 which induces temporary mental derangement similar to schizophrenia.
Date
June 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB81162
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176596
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Explorations in the yet uncharted recesses of man's mind remain one of great challenges confronting men of daring for whom life consists in the conquest of the unknown. Scientists at the Verdun Protestant Hospital, outside Montreal, in their research with the mentally ill are using phrenotropic drugs, (tranquilizers and others which affect the mind). They hope to shed new light on the workings of man's mind. In "double blind" experiment above (neither scientist nor nurse knows what drug is being administered while third person keeps code until end of experiment) an attempt is being made to determine what effect various drugs have on physical and psychological processes.
Date
June 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB81163
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176597
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #123: Canadian Scientists: Probe for Secrets of Brain
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
September 17, 1957
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Nurse who volunteered for experiment with drugs is tested for reaction time. Caffeine first speeds up reaction, later slows it down. Reliance on "wake up" pile for more than short period is self-defeating.
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