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The use of curare in modifying metrazol therapy

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    Metrazol modified by curare has been safely given to 50 patients ranging in age from 16 to 70. No resulting trauma of any description has been demonstrable.

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    It is possible with this method to treat patients who, because of debility, age, or disease, might not be safely treated otherwise.

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    The satisfactory results formerly attributed to unmodified metrazol are still present and apparently not changed by the addition of curare.

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  1. Lincoln State Hospital, Lincoln, Nebr.

    R. W. Gray M. D., F. L. Spradling M. D. & A. H. Fechner M. D.

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Gray, R.W., Spradling, F.L. & Fechner, A.H. The use of curare in modifying metrazol therapy. Psych Quar 15, 159–162 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01613963

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