An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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  • 1883.01

Om Periodiske Depressionstilstande og deres Patogenese.

Copenhagen: Jacob Lunds Forlag, 1886.

Lange was the first to use a mixture of drugs containing lithium carbonate for the preventive treatment of periodic depression. This work contains the “first unequivocal account of prophylactic drug treatment for an exclusively psychiatric–as distinct from physical–condition” (Johnson).



Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › Lithium
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