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Drug toxicity findings and no action taken

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Toxicology in Transition

Part of the book series: Archives of Toxicology ((TOXICOLOGY,volume 17))

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In 1634 Fabricius Hildanus, town physician at Bern, stated “I find it my duty to think and complain against the lying false chemists and rascals that are the destroyer of man… the physician should have known about the property of the drug… (Hildanus 1963).

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  1. Department of Medicine, The George Washington University, School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    F. W. Wolff

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  1. Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universität Dortmund, Ardeystr. 67, D-44139, Dortmund, Germany

    Gisela H. Degen

  2. Interkantonale Kontrollstelle für Heilmittel, Erlachstr. 8, CH-3000, Bern 9, Switzerland

    Jürg P. Seiler

  3. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., K-136.3.23, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

    Philip Bentley

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Wolff, F.W. (1995). Drug toxicity findings and no action taken. In: Degen, G.H., Seiler, J.P., Bentley, P. (eds) Toxicology in Transition. Archives of Toxicology, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79451-3_29

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