delirium tremens
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An autopsy later found that she had been experiencing delirium tremens caused by withdrawal from diazepam, an anti-anxiety medication that P.T.S. staff members said they were never informed she was taking.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016
The book records a period of acute psychological and spiritual disorientation, delirium tremens, the near-destruction of a literary intelligence, starring Kerouac as Jack Duluoz, “bloody ‘King of the Beatniks.’”
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013
The disease, when this symptom is marked, especially if there is at the same time low, muttering delirium and a moist skin, presents a considerable degree of resemblance to delirium tremens.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Occasionally maniacal symptoms develop themselves, the patient becoming dangerously violent, and the case thus assuming a much graver aspect than one of simple delirium tremens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
It is Wilkie Collins gone mad, Gaboriau in extremis, Du Boisgobey suffering from delirium tremens.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
