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3. At the time of appearance of his article, Kingstone was a Travelling Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London. In his article, the author wrote that ‘to our knowledge, no report exists of lithium having been used in North America’ (p. 317); this was true, although the general review written by Gershon and Yuwiler (see note 2) had been published whilst Kingstone’s article was in press.
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5. Schlagenhauf, C., Tupin, J. and White, R. B. (1966) ‘The use of lithium carbonate in the treatment of manic psychoses’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 123, 201–06.