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

It is recommended in the above mentioned doses for delirium tremens, trismus, tetanus and kindred diseases of the nervous system, repeated every hour or half-hour until relief is obtained.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Then it became plain that delirium tremens was not written on his face quite so plainly as Mr. Smirkie had at first thought, and there was nothing left but his trousers to condemn him.

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony

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)