The drug chlorpromazine, one of the so-called “tranquillisers,” is known to cause liver damage and transient jaundice but reports of fatal cases are rare. A case is reported of a woman of thirty-nine years who developed a fatal hepatitis following ten days' therapy with chlorpromazine.
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