Word: delirium
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...report received by U.S. military intelligence in Germany says that Cardinal Mindszenty is in a "state of delirium" as a result of drugging and mistreatment, and that he has been taken from prison to a hospital for the insane...
Dwight Elsenhower, screamed Moscow's Literary Gazette, is a "mad warmonger," and his Crusade in Europe is "a peculiar mixture of insinuations, born of megalomania and artificial delirium." Ike himself didn't think it was quite so bad, although, like any neophyte author, he had a few doubts. In the New York Times Book Review he admitted that "I'm still not dead sure [it was worth bringing out]. I'm no critic. I've been a soldier all my life, and when you come down to it it's simply an old soldier...
...best patients, concluded Drs. O'Hollaren and Lemere, were those who were happily married, successful, intelligent, emotionally stable, financially secure, interested in sobriety clubs (like Alcoholics Anonymous). The worst risks were patients who were heavy drinkers before they were 30, were highly nervous even when sober, had had delirium tremens, were restless in their jobs and careless about money...
...lessons made him feel ill; often he asked doctors for some assurance that disease could not be inherited. On St. Helena, a month before his death, he returned to questions about the anatomy and physiology of the stomach. As he was dying, the hidden fear erupted in his delirium: "My father . . . the pylorus ... I have known it for a long time...
...guard Dauntless ("Plated") Stepling, who will spend this morning on the bench nursing a case of delirium tremens and a hip flask...