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The Treatment of Depression with Desoxyephedrine (Methedrine)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. de M. Rudolf*
Affiliation:
Bristol Clinic for Functional Disorders

Extract

The treatment of depression with desoxyephedrine (pervitin or methedrine) is not new. In 1943 Davidoff reported a comparison of the effect of this preparation with amphetamine and dextroamphetamine on 8 normal and 8 depressed individuals. He found that desoxyephedrine gave the most rapid results, acted the longest and produced the greatest motor activity the most often.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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