Neuropsychiatric manifestations of bromide ingestion
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Neuropsychiatric manifestations of bromide ingestion.
Bromides were formerly used for their sedative and anti-convulsant properties. The neuropsychiatric features of bromide intoxication have been recognized for many years (Barbour, Pilkington and Sargent, 1936). Carney (1971) described 5 cases of bromism and advocated stricter control on bromide preparations. Part III of the Medicine Act (1978) made potassium bromide available only by prescriptio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.58.682.523