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The Treatment of Premenstrual Symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anthony W. Clare
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 6 , December 1979 , pp. 576 - 579
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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