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

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1876
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    ARTICLE II.—Mode of evolution of the sensory disturbances ... 39 1. Sensory disturbances examined as a whole 39 2. Sensory disturbances examined in relation to the peculiarities which they offer in each of the senses 40 ARTICLE III.—Classification of patients affected with alcoholic delirium in three groups, according to the antecedents of the patient and the course and termination of the disease . , 45 Qroup 1. Patients with alcoholic delirium with easy, complete and rapid convalescence . : •■ 45 Case II.—Simple alcoholic delirium j cure . , . . . .46 Case III.—Two attacks of alcoholic delirium; cure .... 48 Group 2. Patients affected with alcoholic delirium with slow convales- cence and tendency to relapse 50 Case IV.—Alcoholic delirium of maniacal, melancholic and stupid forms 51 Case v.—Sixth attack of alcoholic delirium ; slow recovery , . , 55 Case VI.—Repeated attacks of alcoholic delirium 58 Delirium of depressive form; suicidal and homicidal tendencies . . 61 Delirium of expansive form; ambitious ideas 62 Group 3. Predisposed patients, affected with alcoholic delirium with fre- quent relapses, &c 63 Case VII.—Hereditary predisposition; repeated attacks of alcoholic de- lirium 65 Case VIII.—Inherited neurotic tendency; relapses of alcoholic delirium 69 ARTICLE IV.—Action of absinthe on man; muscular shocks; vertigo; epileptic attacks; absinthic epilepsy bears no relation to the trembling or hallucination; delirium . . . . : . . . .73 Case IX 78 Case X 79 Case XI 81 Case XII 87 Case XIII , 90 ARTICLE v.—Treatment. 1. Of Drunkenness 92 2. Of alcoholic delirium 93 Agents derived from the materia medica ...... 93 Confinement; occasions for its employment; its duration . . .91 Prophylaxis 98 CHAPTER III. Febrile Delirium Tremens. ARTICLE I.—Symptoms and diagnosis of febrile delirium tremens . . 102 The severity of the delirium in febrile delirium tremens does not neces- sarily correspond with its gravity . 104 The two essential characters : 1st. Fever, appreciable by means of the thermometer . . i 104 2nd. Trembling with small shocks; tremors and fibrillar contractions of the muscles, especially appreciable by the touch ] 05 Case XIV.—Febrile delirium tremens; high temperature; death; au- topsy 109 Chart of temperature and pulse. Fig. 1 113 Case XV.—Febrile delirium tremens; death; autopsy .... 118 Chart of temperature and pulse, Fig. II. 120
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