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Experience with Thioridazine (“Melleril”) Therapy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2018
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“A doctor must know not only the virtue of a drug, but also its drawbacks”—
Carling (1960).
Thioridazine is one of the newer phenothiazine derivatives used in psychiatry. Previous workers have reported few serious side-effects with it. The following pilot trial was carried out on male patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia who required nursing in a closed ward.
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