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LANGE, Carl Georg

1 entries
  • 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