Remarks on the history and treatment of delirium tremens / [John Ware].

  • Ware, John, 1795-1864
Date:
1831
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    periodical journals, show it to be the general feelings that the subject of its history and treatment has not yet been exhausted. The value of any publication on a practical subject can only depend on the extent of the experience of the author, and on the degree of care with which his observations have been made. It is proper there¬ fore to state, that the cases upon which the following remarks are founded, have been observed during the last fourteen years in private practice, and in the practice of the Almshouse in this city. They have amounted in the whole to between ninety and one hundred ; of which seventy-seven occurred in private practice, and about twenty in the Almshouse. In these cases the peculiar symptoms of Delirium Tre¬ mens were clearly, if not always fully, developed. I have, in addition to these, in common with all other practitioners, witnessed a large number of cases of disease in drunkards, which in some stage of their progress, indicated a greater or less tendency to pass into Delirium Tremens. It is my object to state the results, with regard to the history and treatment of this disease, which have been derived from these cases, without any particular examination of the works or opinions of those who have already written. It seems to be generally admitted among physi¬ cians, that cases of this disease are by no means always alike ; that, though they may agree very well in those peculiar symptoms which are cha-