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. 1981 Sep;12(3):295–302. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1981.tb01217.x

The Fourth Lilly Prize Lecture, University of Aberdeen, September 1980. The clinical pharmacology of clonidine and related central antihypertensive agents.

J L Reid
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