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Dr. Ronald Fieve, 87, Dies; Pioneered Lithium to Treat Mood Swings - The New York Times
'Before it was approved to treat depression, lithium was found in the late 1940s to be potentially unsafe as a salt substitute. '
'Since then, researchers have found that people with genetic markers for colorblindness and a specific blood type were susceptible to manic depression. '
'Fieve and several other researchers persuaded the Food and Drug Administration to approve the prescription of lithium salts for acute mania. '
'In 1970, when he was chief of research in internal medicine at the psychiatric institute and the psychiatric department of what was then called the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (it is now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center), Dr. '
'Fieve pointed out that lithium had been found in natural mineral waters prescribed by Greek and Roman physicians 1,500 years earlier to treat what were then called manic insanity and melancholia. '
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'Before it was approved to treat depression, lithium was found in the late 1940s to be potentially unsafe as a salt substitute. '
'Since then, researchers have found that people with genetic markers for colorblindness and a specific blood type were susceptible to manic depression. '
'Fieve and several other researchers persuaded the Food and Drug Administration to approve the prescription of lithium salts for acute mania. '
'In 1970, when he was chief of research in internal medicine at the psychiatric institute and the psychiatric department of what was then called the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (it is now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center), Dr. '
'Fieve pointed out that lithium had been found in natural mineral waters prescribed by Greek and Roman physicians 1,500 years earlier to treat what were then called manic insanity and melancholia. '
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