Delirium tremens : its diagnosis, causes, and treatment.

  • Wolff, Julius.
Date:
1839
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    circumstances, the most appropriate, I shall adopt in the following pages, and will now proceed to ? treat of the disorder itself. i i Course of the Disease. \ Some physicians have divided the course of this ? disease into different stages. Such divisions, how- 1 ever, are very unsatisfactory; there being no f definite line of separation between them : besides, | the disease often appears in so diverse a manner, I that the distinction between one stage and another ) would be very arbitrary. Topken,^ for instance, S divides it into five^ Blake^ into three stages. If, J however, it should be thought necessary to divide || this disease into stages, I would propose the two I following:— ^ 1.—Precursory Symptoms of the Disease. J 4 Persons who indulge too freely in spirituous | liquors, and who are frequently intoxicated, ge- : nerally, after some considerable time, complain ^ of want of appetite; sometimes passing the f entire day without eating anything, and even t ‘ Ueber die Natur, und den Silz des Delirium Tremens. In I Hufeland’s Journal, Vol. Ixxxvi., st. iv., p. 59. ® Delirium Ebriositatis. In the Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jour, jj No. 78, October, 1823.