On alcoholism, the various forms of alcoholic delirium and their treatment / by V.Magnan ; translated by W. S. Greenfield.

  • Valentin Magnan
Date:
1876
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    tho delirium, but in the course of May, two epileptic attacks oc currcd, and anotl.er on the 3rd of June; but without fresh intel- lectual symptoms. Die case of D is instructive, ])otli from tlie point of view of the special action of absinthe, and also as showing tho secondary importance to ho at- tached to the form of tho delirium, whether mania- cal, melancholic, or stupid, which alcoholic delirium may assume. ^ whose hereditary antecedents present no peculiarity as regards epilepsy, is in good health, until, having become attendant at the canteen, he addicts himself to brandy and absinthe ; then there quickly come on the intellectual disturbances pecu- liar to alcoholism in general, and, moreover, con- vulsive symptoms which we cannot but attribute to absinthe. D , in fact, was not an epileptic, he was in the beginning of an attack of alcoholism when the first attacks occurred, and their frequency followed with tolerable regularity the more frequent excesses in absinthe. As to the maniacal, melancholic, and stupid forms of alcoholic delirium, we find them associated ill D , bearing only a relation to the greater or less intensity of the hallucinatory disturbances, and not leading to the least change in the nature, cause, prognosis or treatment of the disease. Case XIII. Excess in bimidy and absinthe—vertigo and attacks of epilepsy—attach of alcoholic delinum—persistence of some somatic disturbances. Baptiste B , aged 42, a coachman, admitted to St. Anne on June 6th, 1872. There is nothing of importance in his hereditary antecedents. For a long time past he has been given to excess in drink, he drinks especially brandy and absinthe. Has been mar- ried four years, has no children; his wife had a miscarriage six weeks apfo.