Unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain

Usage examples of electrosleep.

They had not yet placed the electrodes on his head for the electrosleep machine.

During such times, Steve Austin slipped into the deep unconsciousness of the electrosleep machine and was gone from the world, either suspended in timeless space or burdened with the dreams that suffused his subconscious.

She explained that it was an electrosleep device invented in Germany and distributed in England and the United States by one of the medical supply houses.

Could she have remembered some casual comment that Sherman made about some trouble with the electrosleep device he had supplied for Maureen Pike and taught Biddy to operate?