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Lithium revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Schou*
Affiliation:
The Psychiatric Hospital 2 Skovagervej, DK-8240 Risskov Denmark
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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