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
Of some affections one attack prepares the way for another, as is the case with intermittent fever, convulsions, delirium tremens, and insanity.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A Whitechapel "lady," suffering with a very violent form of delirium tremens, was lying screeching in a strait-jacket on the cushioned floor of the padded room.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
An excellent English critic, Leslie Stephen, lately wrote: "Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens."
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
