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Repeated Doses of Drugs

Nature volume 153, page 494 (1944)Cite this article

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THE following calculations, which deal with the theory of the accumulation of drugs in the body, involve two assumptions which are known to be justifiable in certain cases. The disappearance of the drug from the body is assumed exponential, and the time taken for absorption and distribution is neglected.

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GADDUM, J. Repeated Doses of Drugs. Nature 153, 494 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153494a0

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