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Reserpine exhumed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

David Healy  and
Marie Savage
David Healy*
Affiliation:
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor
Marie Savage
Affiliation:
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor
*
D. Healy, North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit. Bangor. LL57 2PW
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 172 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 376 - 378
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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