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Use of metrazol in barbiturate poisoning

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From the Milwaukee County Hospital for Mental Diseases, Wauwatosa, Wis.

The Quarterly reports here with regret that Dr. Androp, author of this paper and for some years a valued contributor to this publication, died on November 8, 1943. Proofs of this paper had not yet been submitted to him, andThe Quarterly, therefore, takes responsibility for any possible errors of omission or commission.

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Androp, S. Use of metrazol in barbiturate poisoning. Psych Quar 18, 13–22 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569019

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