While many papers have appeared recently in medical literature on the use of metrazol shock therapy of schizophrenia, the desirability of this method is far from settled, and therefore the report of results in large groups of patients still seems to be warranted. Because this method is so drastic, it is important to determine if its use is justified by the results obtained. Improvement in the mental condition of psychotic patients has been known to occur after severe physical illness. It is essential to learn if convulsive shock therapy is anything more than a series of attacks of physical illness administered in a highly effective manner with an extreme degree of severity. Prior to the use of shock therapy, different state institutions reported extremely varied results in the routine institutional treatment of schizophrenia. When individual and extensive therapy could be applied, the results were gratifying. Cheney and Drewry,1in