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

  • Ware, John, 1795-1864
Date:
1831
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Credit: Remarks on the history and treatment of delirium tremens / [John Ware]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORY AND TREATMENT OF DELIRIUM TREMENS. Some apology may be thought necessary for add¬ ing another to the many publications, which have been made on Delirium Tremens. I have none to offer except the belief that every subject in science, and more particularly every subject in a science of a nature so peculiar as that of medicine, requires not only careful and repeated observation, but the care¬ ful and repeated observation of many individuals, in order to its thorough illustration. This belief is con¬ firmed by what is familiar to all in the history of medicine, that the whole truth on any of its most im¬ portant subjects has only been arrived at by means of the successive contributions of many inquirers. The disease usually denominated Delirium Tremens, if not of late origin, has been but lately at least recog¬ nized and described as a distinct disease ; and the numerous papers which appear relating to it in the