Delirium tremens : its nature and treatment / by Charles S. Tripler.

  • Charles Stuart Tripler
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: Delirium tremens : its nature and treatment / by Charles S. Tripler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DELIRIUM TREMENS: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. BY CHARLES S. TEIPLEE, M. D. Surgeon TJ- S. Army. In the year 1827, being then a student and a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, I wrote a dissertation upon Delirium Tremens, and presented it to the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, for examination. This disserta- tion was published by Professor John B. Beck, in the New York Medical and Physical Journal, of which he was at that time the Editor. I ventured at that early period to call the disease the Irritative Fever of Drunkenness, and en- deavored to show that it was a disease of irritation analo- gous to, if not identical with, irritation induced by causes altogether different from the recognized cause of Delirium Tremens. Thirty years more of observation have not changed my views of the nature of this disease; on the contrary, I have the satisfaction of finding that a number of writers, of far greater note than myself, have, in the course of that time, taken views closely similar to, if not identical with my own. But the methods of treatment I then advocated, have been modified by time—perhaps I should rather say, have been determined or defined—that what was then vaguely sug- gested, I hope now to communicate in a clearer manner, so that if my opinions be of any value, they may be susceptible of a more ready practical application. My remarks, as originally published in 1827, are as follows:
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