A practical essay on the disease generally known under the denomination of delirium tremens : written principally with a view to elucidate its division into distinct stages, and hence to simplify its method of cure / by Andrew Blake, M.D.

  • Blake, Andrew, M.D.
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1830
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    meaning, and produces, even in the slight- est degree, the effect I propose, I shall consider as well spent the time allotted to its composition. Had I been anxious to increase the size of this monograph, I might have done so easily by the addition of a number of cases, the details of which would have ex- tended it considerably ; but as I only in- tend it to be of practical utility, and have written principally with a view to establish a few facts regarding its true nature and proper treatment, I have refrained from doing what seems to me unnecessary. The paper which I originally wrote on this subject was meant as a part of one of those Annual Reports which the present indefatigable and distinguished chief of