metrazol
/ˈmɛtrəzɔl/
noun
- A drug formerly used to induce seizures as a treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
- The use of metrazol shock therapy declined after the introduction of safer treatments.
- Metrazol was once injected to cause convulsions in psychiatric patients.
- Historians note that metrazol was a controversial and often frightening treatment.