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A Controlled Study of the Effect of Mephenesin on Psychiatric Out-Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

P. A. L. Scott
P. A. L. Scott*
Affiliation:
Manchester Royal Infirmary
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The chemical compound 3-ortho-toloxy-1,2-propanediol, known as mephenesin, Myanesin or Tolserol, was shown by Berger and Bradley in 1946 to depress reflex excitability of the spinal cord and to have a depressant action at higher levels of the central nervous system in higher dosage. Other investigators confirmed this and the drug has been found effective for the spasticity and tremor of some neurological conditions.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 422 , January 1955 , pp. 163 - 171
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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