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The Effects of Pacatal on Chronic Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. W. Simpson*
Affiliation:
Knowle Hospital, Fareham

Extract

Pacatal is one of the newer so-called tranquillizing drugs. It is a synthetic phenothiazine derivative—N-methyl-piperidyl-(3)-methylphenothiazine which was first investigated in Germany in 1954. It has the same basic structure as chlorpromazine but a different side chain.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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References

1 Bowes, Angus, “The Ataractic Drugs. The Present Position of Chlorpromazine, Frenquel, Pacatal and Reserpine in the Psychiatric Hospital”, Amer. J. Psychiat., 1956, 113, 530.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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