An acute organic mental disorder induced by cessation or reduction in chronic alcohol consumption. Clinical characteristics include CONFUSION; DELUSIONS; vivid HALLUCINATIONS; TREMOR; agitation; insomnia; and signs of autonomic hyperactivity (e.g., elevated blood pressure and heart rate, dilated pupils, and diaphoresis). This condition may occasionally be fatal. It was formerly called delirium tremens. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1175)
    

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A bottle of liquor pointing a finger at a devil; representing alcohol as a cause of delirium tremens. Colour lithograph after I.A. Vol'nova, 1984.

The horrors of delirium tremens / By J. Root.

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

Report of cases of delirium tremens occurring in the Hospital of the Baltimore Alms House, with observations : to which is added an appendix, containing an appeal in behalf of the insane poor of Maryland / by A.C. Robinson.

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium

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The horrors of delirium tremens / By J. Root.

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

Report of cases of delirium tremens occurring in the Hospital of the Baltimore Alms House, with observations : to which is added an appendix, containing an appeal in behalf of the insane poor of Maryland / by A.C. Robinson.

Cases of delirium tremens treated with large doses of the tincture of digitalis / by John Watt Reid.

Observations on delirium tremens / by Samuel Jackson.