Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described...
...Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest to his family, he voluntarily entered various asylums for "cures," but remained involuntarily. Worst of the lot was the private sanitarium which he entered docilely enough, till he noticed the barred windows and thug-attendants. He thereupon tried to leave...
...care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected in the public square. Now, 50 years later, musical people find him increasingly important...
...rate of epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...
...Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium Falls, Maniac Marsh, Hangman's Hollow and several other pleasant villages passengers were thrown out without stopping the train...