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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    painful hallucinations. He thought he was a mil- lionaire, that lie ouglit to live in fine style, to have mistresses, servants, and carriages, and that every- body about liim ought to be ha]Dpy. Some moments afterwards he saw robbers coming to take his for- tune from him, assassins armed with knives killing his father and mother, he noticed blood around liim, spectres, and ferocious beasts; they called him the murderer of Montmartre, etc. Later on, in liis convalescence, he perfectly remembered this deli- rium and said, ‘‘ it was a mirage, but it apj^eared quite real to me.” In chronic alcoholism ambitious delirium is of rather more importance, since, in some doubtful cases, it may aid us in recognizing the tendency of chronic alcoholism towards general paralysis. III. Patients specially predisjjosed, who when suffering from alcoholic delirium, have frequent relapses and a convalescence often interrupted by delirious ideas, assuming more or less the form of partial delusions. Persistence of delirium, after the acute symp- toms, reveals itself in alcoholics of special predis- position, in those predisposed persons of whom M. Moreau speaks in his Psychologic Morbide, and to whom M. Laborde has drawn attention in a recent work.* The cerebral inferiority of these persons finds its most frequent cause in heredity. But there is also Moreau (de Tours), La psychologie morbide dans ses rapports aveclapUlosopUedeVUstoire,l'^h<d.—Lo\iordie, Les homines et les odes de Vinsurrection devant la psychologie morbide, 1Q72. Morel Traitt des maladies mentales. Paris, 1860, p. 513.—Morel, TraitS des dcghhescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de Vesphe hu- maine, Paris, I860.