Word: delirium
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...this is not surprising. During the last fortnight his confusion has been built into delirium. Every night at dinner two giant speakers blare weird music at him. It is the music that is distracting his mind. It is the music that is making the milk sours and the spoons disappear. It is a violation of most fundamental human rights to dignity, and peace, and privacy...
...With this obedient people . . . even outbursts of vengeance seem to be regulated by a certain discipline. Calculated murder is executed in cadence; men kill other men militarily, religiously, without anger . . . with a calm more terrible than the delirium of hatred...
Little wonder that this country has such a bad case of "Delirium Trumans...
...publishers went bankrupt and failed to pay him. His wife became an alcoholic and was out of her head for a time. His eldest son ran hugely into debt, was kicked out of the army, and almost broke Tupper's heart when he was found suffering from delirium tremens in a prostitute's lodgings. Another son was killed in an accident. Tupper himself, who died in 1889, at 79, lived out his last years on public doles and subscriptions raised among his friends...
...certain that ACTH will cure anything, but its temporary effects are noteworthy. Examples: ¶ In delirium tremens, ACTH begins to show results in three to ten hours. It is "easily the most effective treatment we have used," reported Dr. James J. Smith of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. ¶ Allergic conditions are often "materially relieved," said Drs. Theron G. Randolph and John P. Rollins of Northwestern University. In asthma, the relief is short-lived, but some hay fever (ragweed) victims were sneeze-free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues...