In 1949, a French Doctor Discovered That Soldiers Were Calmed

question 35

True/False

In 1949, a French doctor discovered that soldiers were calmed before surgery by chloropromazine. He shared this finding with psychiatrists who had similar success in calming patients with serious mental illness; the success of this drug triggered the "pharmacological revolution" that followed.

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