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

  • Ware, John, 1795-1864.
Date:
1831
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    veil entirely its character, and conceal its dangers. I am not aware that either of these last named varie- ties has been known to occur, but as they are equally probable in themselves as the forms of com- plication which have been already described, it seems proper to suggest them as cases for the occurrence of which we are to be prepared. IV. So far, we have referred chiefly to those cases in which Delirium Tremens assumes the form of a regular paroxysm, terminating in sleep. In acute diseases, this is the usual course, but sometimes in the acute diseases, and frequently in the chronic diseases of drunkards, a delirium comes on resembling that of which we have been speaking, in everything, except that it does not go through the same regular course, or come to a similar termination. Thus in a case of very severe pleurisy, for two nights in suc- cession, at the height of the disease, the patient was delirious, and resembled so exactly in his appearance, manner, and disordered imaginations, those which are exhibited in Delirium Tremens, that no one, not acquainted with the whole history of the case, would have suspected that it was anything but a regular case of that disease. The course of the pleuritic affection was not at all modified ; the patient was nearly rational through the corresponding days ; the delirium subsided rather gradually; he slept occa- sionally while it continued, and finally recovered, without a proper paroxysm. In another case of thoracic disease, viz. of inflam-