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Combined Antidepressant Medication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Snowdon
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
Robin Braithwaite
Affiliation:
Poisons Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, S.E.1
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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