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Rapid Eyelid Tremor After a Massive Phenothiazine Overdose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. D. D. Freed
E. D. D. Freed*
Affiliation:
St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, N.S.W. 2010, Australia
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 144 , Issue 2 , February 1984 , pp. 216 - 217
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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