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.

  • Blake, Andrew.
Date:
1840
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON DELIRIUM TREMENS. The various diseases to which the human race is subject, arise either from original confirmation, from accidental causes, or from the effect of habits and circumstances, which are, in a great measure, under the controul of the will. The complaint inves- tigated in the following pages, will be found to belong to the last class, and might, by a due ex- ercise of the sensorial faculties, be altogether pre- vented ; but unfortunately for us we do not all suffi- ciently engage them in moderating the propensities to which our frail nature directs us, the consequence of which is, that we frequently entail on ourselves maladies to which we should otherwise be utter strangers, and amongst which the affection about to be treated of holds a distinguished rank. It is described by different authors under various