dipsomania
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It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania.
From Time Magazine Archive
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No "psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania.
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But I must note also that the moral results may be as important here as in the cases of inhibition of dipsomania and the like, already mentioned.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
The parallel between dipsomania and bibliomania is very close and suggestive, and I have often thought that more should be made of it.
From Books and Bookmen by Maclaren, Ian
Some of the cases of hereditary dipsomania are almost surely of this character.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin