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......... ·-....... ...... .. ..... _·-_ ·.·r.··.;,. ... ': .'- -··r· .. ·.--:--·~-- ~ ~ ~~ . ' -.• ~ -•• ..s.·: - .... Transistorized Unit Is Successful in ~ical Tests By STACY V • .JO!Il'ES Special to Tilt Now York Tim. . WASHINGTON, APril 29- A professor of electrical engineering has· invented a portable electric sleep-inducer. The effect has been compared· with that of phenobarbital Dr. Omar Wing, Patents at present on sab- of the batical leave from Columbia Univer· Week sity, will receive a patent June U for the device, which is called the Electrosom. The National Patent Devel opment Corporation, New York, to which the patent Ir-- assigned, is arranging for clinical tests on about 100 human subjects, to supple· ment an earlier study. After the tests; Ute ·com;.;· pany hopes to market a. hos- ' pital model at about $300. Eventually, with approval by the Food and Drug Adminis tration, a. simpler design for individual use is planned, to sell under $100. National Patent holds the Amer~· rights to a sleep maclr" atented In 1964 by three .assian engineers, but The N ev: York Times regards the Wmg Instrument Prof. Omar Wing with sleep-inducing apparatus he de\ised as much superior. The Russian version was torized and powered by a re second, with brief pulses at considerably heavier and more chargeable cadmium - nickel 18 or 20 volts, which enter expensive, required vacuum battery, about flashlight-size. at the nape o! the neck and tubes instead of transistors, A timer will tum it off after exit through the eyelids. , and had to be left plugged 20 or 30 minutes. The pulses are adjusted into the wall. Electric pulses are applied "until the patient barely feels The new sleep inducer fits to the head through pads. discomfort, and experiences in a Ught case, about the size The patent describes a. wave of a cigar-box. It is transis- train of 30 or 40 cycles e. Continued on Page U, Column 4. . _,_....._. l -~:, \ flil', ••- .... ~ I J I / -.W YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1966. • J:t ide Variety. of Ideas .Covered • ,_ B .,Patents Issued Durzng We~~_ ~jl~ Continued From Pare 35 · alternate black and white color sensations." In the earlier study, Dr. Bernard Straus, professor of medicine at New York Medi. cal. College, employed ·the W~ng deVice on 3i This page is a digital image rather than a scanned document page and does not contain any declassified CIA document content to analyze visually. It shows a graphic with a drawing of a vault door on the left side, against a dark background with blue accents. Text overlays the right side of the image, stating that the document was obtained from a website called "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection. It provides a URL for downloading the collection. The page features a large black and white photograph of a man wearing what appears to be a headpiece with horizontal stripes over his closed eyes, holding a small device in one hand. The photograph is captioned "Prof. Omar Wing with sleep-inducing apparatus he devised." There are handwritten annotations on the page, including the number "170" circled in the top right and bottom right corners. The text is arranged in columns beside the photograph. There are no visible official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, or redacted content. The visual content directly illustrates the subject of the article and the apparatus being described. 30, 1966. • J:t ide Variety. of Ideas .Covered • ,_ B .,Patents Issued Durzng We~~_ ~jl~ Continued From Pare 35 · alternate black and white color sensations." In the earlier study, Dr. Bernard Straus, professor of medicine at New York Medi. cal. College, employed ·the W~ng deVice on 3i voluntary patients . suffering from ln. samni& and re(Ularly receiv. - ing medication. Both the subjects and the attending nurse reported that -··there Wfte'"''more good-nights' sleep" when the instrument was employed. In Dr, Straus's opinion, the instrument had efficacy m inducing sleep, but he thought further study was needed to determine whether the nurse wi.s right. in pronouncing-it a.s effective as phenobarbitaL He said the extremely low. power source made it safe for patients. While on leave, Dr. Wing Is in Jth'e Computer Science dep~ nt of the I.B.M. Re. seart... Center, Yorktown Heights, N. Y. He is co-in. ventor of a method of com. · . . ..:.·•. . :::-~·~·-·. verting & teleVision receiver to proVide simUltaneous sound in several languages. The new patent will be 3,255,753. * - Sleep·, induced· by means oj short electrical pulses, closely resembles natural sleep and is probably. the most innocuous form of artificial · . . sleep. This form of therapy is widely practised in Russia, and to . .. some extent elsewhere, and a special c./inic lzas opened in London ~his week .• \ Man has apprec:iated the curative V.lue times. The most divene resources have rashes, increa11ed temperature. broncho or sleep in warious disea~~e~ for at least been called upon to overcome it. The en pneumonia. nerve and liver damage. and. 2000 years. One or the earliest r.ecords of deavour to induce sleep artifically has finally. drug addiction. Thus it became a deliberate attempt to induce sleep for received a considerable 1mpetu11 over the esP,Ccticnt to devel~p •. sleep thenapy such purpose.-. votive tablet from ·past century. •ith the advent of appro which would ph)'llaolog•cally retemble . Epidaurus dated 372 a.c.-tells of success-. priate dnags. However, it was very soon natural sleep. · · . Cul '"temple sleep". The "sleeping recognized that such pharmacologically Retearchers in several countries now draught" referred to on the tablet seems induced sleep is not always hannle!'s. This clRim that tltis has JH.en achieved with tfte A to be the ancestor or·narcotic,treatment. kind or sleep trelltm"cnt. better tenned new method or elcctrothera~tic aleep. W widely The document is a scanned page from a newspaper, likely a clipping, featuring an article with a headline and body text. There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, signatures, stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, or redactions visible. The only non-textual visual elements are a small, simple line-drawing illustration next to the headline that appears to be a stylized depiction of a cloud or possibly a map. The image quality is fair, with some background noise and slight yellowing of the paper. recognized that such pharmacologically Retearchers in several countries now draught" referred to on the tablet seems induced sleep is not always hannle!'s. This clRim that tltis has JH.en achieved with tfte A to be the ancestor or·narcotic,treatment. kind or sleep trelltm"cnt. better tenned new method or elcctrothera~tic aleep. W widely applied in modem medicine. "prolonged narcosis". has had adherent~r Furthennore, it i11 bClir.ved that it may . Insomnia has always been a medical in Europe. Russia and North Amerit'.ll. prove useful not only for the tre:atn~e~ o( · problem-increasingly 10 in modem Drawbacks include side-effocu such as Insomnia but aJ!IO for many other dia;eascs like bronchial asthma. higli blood pressure. nervous dennatitis and duodenal ulcers. •· Electrotherapeutic sl«p. which re :.._- ceived its first practical applications and success in Russia more th.'in a decade AtEO• has been investigated bv· a number o( sCientists in Western Europe and tfJe United States. The results or tftete in vestigations are promising from the medical viewpoint. . In practice, electric 1leep has been appliecl somewhat empirirollv on the enernl bn,;1~ thnt the Mturnl elet'trinl OOllt'!t'ln" r!ln 1s kpmm from electrocm<'cphalogram p;i'terns, to differ from that which occurs when the person iaawake. By inter- • rering with the brain'l waking electrical . ... \ : . . . ;. .. ::'-·· .. • :- •, .. F'J.gUre 1 top This electm #np u .quiprrwzt connected to ca f»Jient'l : hHi:l by sp«~'a.l rlectrode1 that t:Onduct millut!CtJnd pul&es t11ith ca currmt of llholll om: milliamp at aJre9uency of · IHtUieen one antllJO t:/1 · Figure 2 bottom Electrw~pha.l09ranu i-ecorded 41 tleree point• 011 ihe I~ litk oft iae Mad ofa _penon 4U1Ue but : relazinq U1itlr hu eYU cl01ed fi!'pbzp the typico.l alplaa-rlrytAm, a fairly • · regultzr UHI.~form U1i'th a fi'Cf/uency of .. Uolll ten c/1 and amplitude 10me 50 microwlt1. Ep opening or IM \ raumptiort ofo tlier kinrb of .·• ; nervocu activity inhibit thu · electrical behaoiOIU'. In deep #Hp_, · , lao&Dever, the a.lplw.·rhythm u repku:etl 6,r the 1loU1er, ·~ular delta·fiHI.PU · ~· U1hich ha~ 11 frequency ofo nly one t:/1 or loU1er, tlwugh their amplitude nray f,e u gre11t 111 200 microPO/tJ. Electm .':=:'~~ .;rol!ri _ • . -:- 1/eep induces an ez11ctly 1imiltz.r 1 - p-tJlt em in. tiae 1/eeping ptJIWnl . • I , .. ! ;"C~ . .,. • . • Xf!ltO l iXf!ltOI ··d -. C or loU1er, tlwugh their amplitude nray f,e u gre11t 111 200 microPO/tJ. Electm .':=:'~~ .;rol!ri _ • . -:- 1/eep induces an ez11ctly 1imiltz.r 1 - p-tJlt em in. tiae 1/eeping ptJIWnl . • I , .. ! ;"C~ . .,. • . • Xf!ltO l iXf!ltOI ··d -. C orY\ '.CQII'T.i ,...... ... !CQII'T: - r'\ --:-·-......., -~ ~ --..- "<!!?' \ ----- - ~-------- ····-- .... _____. &....-_- -.....t •: 1 . A _o_~ dO 3_x_ :J l. l ~ llu::IO~·r Oflt3JC~ 'l;t:\1 SC:JF.STI!'T 3 t'£BRI"AR\' 1'164• 293 actav1ty with external electrical pulses, Moscow. Professors M. G. Anan'yev, Internal medicine-for treating gastric tbe argument runs. it should be possible N. Cilliarovsky and S. Roitenburg were ulcers and ulcer-like conditions, high to induce the appropriate sleeping the pioneers inapplyingelectrotherapeutic blood pressure, asthma and the lung pa,ttcrn. It tum.<~ out t~at this procedure sleep to patients. · condition, emphysema. · works, although the theoretical basis The various types of electric sleep Gyneacologr-Russian and. American remains uncertain. inducing apparatus that are coming into sources have reported excellent results Theories of exactly what happens in use in different countries generate short, in the treatment of the early forms of muural sleep fall into two categories: the .. square-wave" pulses of current of low s!ckness in. eregnancy, particularly per fint-largely favoured by Russian ifltensity and low frequency to induce a SlStent vonuung. workers-is due to Pavlov who maintained state of deep relaxation and slce·p. At Pediatri~ number of cases are that the normal alternation of sleeping at present the types of pulsed current com report'ed in the literature of success in the night and waking during the day was a monly used for achieving electric sleep treatment of various nervous disorders conditioned reflex. Sleep, in thi:; context, have frequencies ranging from 1 to 130 C/s, following encephalitis in children. ....e sulted from the inhibition of nervous ~ith pulse lengths ranging from 0.2 to Sur~ery--in the surgical department, Wactivity over the whole of the cortex ofthe 1.2 millisecs and amplitudes of from 0 to sleep mducing apparatus can be used for brain. Nowadays such cortical changes l.S milliamps. . . ' putting the patient to sleep in the ward can be associated with changes in the These pulses are produced by the main before operation to spare needless electrical rhythms recorded by electro component of the apparatus· which takes anxiety. In addition, for minor The page contains a declassified newspaper article about "ELECTRIC SLEEP THERAPY." It features a grainy illustration of a person with electrodes on their head, connected to a piece of electrical equipment. Below this, there are two sets of graphs labeled "Awake resting" and "Deep sleep," depicting brainwave patterns. The text is accompanied by handwritten marginalia, including the number "171" circled in red twice, and what appear to be stamping marks at the bottom of the page. cortical changes l.S milliamps. . . ' putting the patient to sleep in the ward can be associated with changes in the These pulses are produced by the main before operation to spare needless electrical rhythms recorded by electro component of the apparatus· which takes anxiety. In addition, for minor su~ery, encephalography (EEC). Electrical sleep its current· supplies from the mains or the combination of electric sleep w1th a induction may be simply the result of batteries. Patients are connected to the local anaesthetic allows the dose of the superposition of external .pulses on the generator with special electrodes, placed latter to be greatly reduced, and helps the natural rhythms, bringing about a change on the head, contact being established via patient to tolerate the operatiQn itself in cortical activity. the forehead and the lower part of the skull better. - The alternative theory is based upon just above the neck. On the basis ·of the electric sleep numerous investigations that have In studies conducted in Russia, Europe, inducing apparatus, and the results of pointed to the existence of specific ..s lee{l the United States and Japan electric physiological investigations of electric- . waking centres" in the brain-possibly m sleep treatment has been employed either ally induced sleep, a separate piece of the hypothalamus-whose activity nor on its own or in combination with other equipment has been designed in· Russia mally keeps the brain awake. El~ctri~!l forms of therapy in the folJo,ving branches for electronarcosis-a· new proposal sleep may be the outcome of localized of medicine. • · for inducing degrees of anaesthesia suffi ~ontrol of these centres by currents pass P:ychiatryo--in cases of depression, cient for any surgical intervention. The m~t through them. anxiety states, agitated paranoid condi results of experiments are very promis- The first electric sleep-inducing ap tions, catatonia (schizophrenic fixity of ing, and tlli~~ t)'E.~Qf.a.~!l!t~-tJ..tl!_Sj!.~.YJ!~~--··· paratus. w:is' designed ·in Russia. at the posture), alcoholic and. narcotk With~ used in the near future for actual surgery. Vishnievskii Institute for Experimental drawal states, and for various forms of It will greatly reduce the chemical agents Surgical apparatus and Instruments, headache, as well as insomnia. used during operations. · f ,- LA86ll100 Each ampoule makes one litre of the stated nor mality, but othe: normali ties can be obtained by varying the dilution rates appropriately. Some recent additions to SAVE TIMEn a nd TROUBLE with (") the 'Volucon· range: The document is a scanned page from a publication, featuring multiple columns of text and an advertisement. The text columns discuss various applications of electric sleep induction, including its use in psychiatry, internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, and surgery. An advertisement for "Volucon" volumetric concentrates is present on the lower half of the page, accompanied by an illustration of an ampoule being poured into a bottle. No photographs of people, stamps, or handwritten annotations are visible. 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