Remarks on delirium tremens, or the irritative fever of drunkenness : an inaugural dissertation, submitted to the examination of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, John Watts, Jun. ... for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Charles Stuart Tripler, April 3d, 1827.

  • Charles Stuart Tripler
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1827
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    INAUGURAL DISSERTATION. When persons, who have long indulged in the excessive use of ardent spirits, are suddenly deprived of their accus- tomed stimulus, they frequently become the subjects of a peculiar and interesting disease. To this affection, the vari- ous appellations of Delirium Tremens, Mania a Potu, Mania a Temulentia, and the Brain Fever of Drunken- ness, have been given by the different authors who have noticed it. It is but a short period since the attention of physicians has been in any degree particularly directed to this complaint. In the text books of the student it is not even mentioned ; and most that is to be learnt concerning it, must be searched for through our periodical works. Dr. Armstrong, in his excel- lent work on Typhus, has given a very concise and correct history of the disorder, together with its symptoms and mode of treatment. He thinks that Hippocrates has described it in his Epidemics, particularly in the case of Chserion, in the third book. It appears, however, that among the moderns, Dr. Samuel Burton Pearson published the first account of it. In ] 812, a short paper on the subject, by Dr. Armstrong, and in the year following, the Tracts of Dr. Sutton, were pub- lished. Since that time, a number of papers, and cases of the