Delirium tremens : its diagnosis, causes, and treatment.

  • Wolff, Julius.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Delirium tremens : its diagnosis, causes, and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE. Che vice of drunk^^, the scourge of our race, tvhich is limited to no country, to which neither riivers nor mountain-chains, nor the ocean itself, loorms a barrier, but which is disseminated, more »r less, throughout the known world, teems with luch wide-spreading evils, and is productive of uch direful consequences, that its annals would itfford one of the most frightful pictures that could lie portrayed to erring man. Delirium Tremens, the subject of the following wages, is but one of these evils; it is, however, the oaost important one that falls under the physician’s <are, and one of the few which it is in his power to illleviate. The author, having had his attention ;-articularly directed towards this disorder, was uurprised at the paucity of information he was able DD obtain from the few medical writers who had mde this subject their study; nor, although his eesearches have been extensive, has he been able