Electrical Aversion Therapy

Abstract

per vehicle mile travelled is appreciably higher on the motorway than on other types of road. . ." seems to fulfil the prophecy of Fitzwater Wray, in " The Kuklos Papers " (1927), when the agitation for cyclists' rear lights was in full spate and cyclists were called the " greatest menace on the roads," to the effect that the removal from the roads of all users but motorists would simply mean that the latter would run into each other at higher speeds.-I am, etc., Liskeard, Cornwall. W. H. SPOOR.

Alcoholism

“…From the theoretical point of view, both drugs, but particularly apomorphine, have serious defects and attempts are now being made to produce aversion by other means, for example, the association of alcohol with an electric shock (McGuire and Vallance 1964; Quinn and Patten 1964). Recently Canadian workers (Sanderson, Campbell and Laverty 1963) have attempted to produce a phobia to alcohol by associating it with respiratory paralysis induced by intravenous scoline.…”