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The Treatment of Depressive States with Imipramine Hydrochloride (Tofranil)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. T. Leyberg
Affiliation:
Townleys Psychiatric Unit, Bolton Group of Hospitals
J. C. Denmark
Affiliation:
Townleys Psychiatric Unit, Bolton Group of Hospitals

Extract

Drug treatment of depressive states has hitherto been somewhat disappointing but recent reports by Kuhn (1957, 1958), Kielholz and Battegay (1958) from Switzerland, and Azimo and Vispo (1958) from Canada have claimed that imipramine hydrochloride (Tofranil) has “thymoleptic” qualities and is of specific therapeutic value in states of endogenous depression and allied affective disorders.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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References

Azima, H., and Vispo, R. H., Amer. J. Psychiat., 1958, 115, 245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kuhn, R., ibid., 1957, 87, 1135.Google Scholar
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