Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarantine and sanitary measures which, they admit, are of doubtful medical value but which were helpful in allaying panic and salvaging the camp's morale. Early diagnosis of the disease is difficult since the first symptoms are variable and confusing until the appearance of a characteristic rash, delirium, painful stiffness of neck muscles, partial deafness and blindness...
Very much the worse for his 47-day journey through New Guinea's tangled jungle, Vern Haugland (TIME, Oct. 1) awoke last week from a nine-day delirium, smiled and said: "Tell my mother I've been real sick...
...Produced no aftereffects such as delirium, nausea, vomiting...
...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...
...Delirium tremens, which afflicts only 4% of all drunkards, develops in "persons of robust health" after ten or 15 years of hard drinking. A severe injury or illness usually starts the disease off. Victims suffer from uncontrollable trembling (often including the tongue) as well as from visions of faces, voices, small, fast-moving animals. (The traditional pink elephant has been seen by only one patient on record...