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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 8, 2020

Om Periodiske Depressionstilstande og deres Patogenese.

Publication Details

Copenhagen: Jacob Lunds Forlag, 1886 CE.

Lange was the first to use a mixture of drugs containing lithium carbonate for the preventive treatment of periodic depression. This work contains the “first unequivocal account of prophylactic drug treatment for an exclusively psychiatric–as distinct from physical–condition” (Johnson).

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#1883.01
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/2534
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLom-periodiske-depressionstilstande-og-deres-patogenese

Geographic Context

Publication place: Copenhagen