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The use of Lithium Salts in Affective Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. P. Hartigan
G. P. Hartigan*
Affiliation:
St. Augustine's Hospital, Canterbury
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Since the original observations in Australia by Cade (1949) and Noack and Trautner (1951) on the use of lithium salts in psychiatric practice there has been a modest but steady stream of publications on the subject. The most persistent investigator has been Schou in Denmark (1954, 1955, 1956, 1959), who, with his colleagues, has been able to present a series of manic patients, observed over a sufficient period of time and subjected to controlled conditions, in which the clinical value of the drug has been convincingly demonstrated. Other important series have been reported by Teulié et al. (1955), Rice (1956), Adreani et al. (1958), Kingstone (1960), and Gershon and Yuwiller (1960).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 463 , November 1963 , pp. 810 - 814
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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