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Experience with Thioridazine (“Melleril”) Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

N. Gold
N. Gold*
Affiliation:
Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke
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“A doctor must know not only the virtue of a drug, but also its drawbacks”—

Carling (1960).

Thioridazine is one of the newer phenothiazine derivatives used in psychiatry. Previous workers have reported few serious side-effects with it. The following pilot trial was carried out on male patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia who required nursing in a closed ward.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 448 , May 1961 , pp. 523 - 528
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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