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Lithium was once just a remedy for gout and bladder stones—until a psychiatrist’s bizarre experiment changed everything. After World War II, John Cade injected urine from mentally ill patients into guinea pigs, hoping to uncover the biological roots of mental illness...

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References:

  1. Cade J. F. (1999). John Frederick Joseph Cade: family memories on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the use of lithium in mania. 1949. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 33(5), . https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.00624.x
  2. Shorter E. (2009). The history of lithium therapy. Bipolar disorders
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