The first patient was subsequently treated at the Columbus Hospital in New York City. This was the first hospital that allowed the treatment of electroconvulsive therapy in the United States. In December 1940, Dr. Walter Freeman requested the presence of Impastato and Almansi along with the ECT machine in Washington DC. _He_wanted to them to demonstrate the treatment of ECT on one of his patients, a thirty-year-old man with schizoid depression. <sep>, Pronoun: He