Delirium tremens : its diagnosis, causes, and treatment.

  • Wolff, Julius.
Date:
1839
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    ;heerfulness during the rage.” This assertion, lowever, of the infrequency of the occurrence of •heerfulness during the rage, my own experience mables me to deny; as I have frequently seen 'he patient so humorous during the paroxysms? nd his incoherent ejaculations were of so jocular I i, character, that neither his friends around him, ! hior myself, could refrain from laughter. Numerous cases of a similar description I wit- : inessed in Holland, under the care of an eminent ! lurgeon in the army. Dr. Henninger. I myself, i!Iso, had several under my own immediate care; iimd have observed a vast number under the treat- iient of other medical men in hospitals, &c. Lind' llso mentions cases where the madness was hu- iHorous and mirthful. The patient then appears 3) forget the disease entirely, and becomes fearful ff losing his property; and this thought torments iim incessantly. Sometimes he shuns his relatives tnd acquaintances, and seeks solitude; sometimes te is anxious to see them around him, and begs of nem not to leave him. They no sooner comply iith his request, than he begins to scold, and in- i;jlt them—heaps reproaches upon them of every ■ escription, accuses them of conspiring against iim, &c. The patients mostly complain of not eeing at home; and of being prevented, by bad * L. c., p, 46. c