Word: delirium
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...from Newfoundland; and the woman next to me was stone-deaf so I spoke to her all the way, more wildly and more wildly as the plane lurched on through dark and lion-thunder and the firewater yelled through my blood like Sioux, and she unheard all my delirium with a smile; and then the Red Indians scalped me; and then it was London; and my iron will brought the bird down safely . . ." The Dying Light. Of himself Thomas once said: "I am first class of second class." It was no deprecatory assessment-still leaving the top for Shakespeare, Dante...
Equally striking is the effect of chlorpromazine on delirium tremens. Patients do not develop the usual panic, nausea and chills; tremor subsides so quickly that they can be discharged after half the usual time, or less...
...power and portent. Edifying compilations of last words were highly valued in the days when people spoke of "making a good death." The latest such anthology throws edification to the winds. In his Dictionary of Last Words (Philosophical Library;$5), Editor Edward S. Le Comte includes the irrelevancies of delirium as well as the measured phrases of "holy dying." He has culled such sources as Baedeker's The United States, newspapers and TIME, as well as the standard biographies, for his 1,664 quotations. The result is not as random as it first seems. There are patterns...
...received his telegram that day in 1900, the news from Charles Jones, valet to the eccentric millionaire William Marsh Rice, was hardly a shock. After all, old Mr. Rice was 84, and it was therefore not surprising that he should have died of "old age, weak heart and delirium." But when friends and family arrived at his home, they came in for a shock after...
...mystery was left unsolved. "Dick." pleaded Meuler in delirium at the hospital. "Dick, why do you want to kill me?" Dick did not explain...