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Prophylactic Lithium: A Double-Blind Trial in Recurrent Affective Disorders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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Lithium was first successfully used in the treatment of mania by Cade (1949), and its efficacy in reducing mania was confirmed in double-blind trials by Schou et al. (1954) and Maggs (1963).
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