The drug habits and their treatment ; a clinical summary of some of the general facts recorded in practice / By T.D. Crothers.

  • Crothers, T. D. (Thomas Davison), 1842-1918.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The drug habits and their treatment ; a clinical summary of some of the general facts recorded in practice / By T.D. Crothers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    persons frankly confess that they go off to indulge in this alcoholic narcotism, that it is an irresist- ible charm which they are powerless to control. Others conceal these attacks or explain them a9 due to other causes. Not unfrequently these attacks end in acute mania from which recovery is very slow, and in many cases does not follow. After the subsidence of the drink storm, the mind often retains its exalted and delusional state, and permanent men- tal troubles begin. Some of the most dangerous homicidal cases have followed the drink excess of periodical drinkers. General paralysis is often a sequel of this form of drinking. Paranoia, and many of the obscure mental disorders come from this cause. The third class of irregular or impulsive drink- ers are very numerous, and drink or abstain from causes and conditions very obscure. Sometimes a period of abstinence extending over years will occur, then they will drink to excess and continue at irregular intervals for an indefinite time. Such persons drink when excited or from overwork or underwork or any other causes which seem to break up the uniformity of their life and surround- ings. Many of these persons explain the drink craze by the most trifling, childish theories. Often they appear in temperance meetings, and describe with great minuteness their sin of drinking, giving