Word: delirium
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...second injection of Seliger's solution pulled the patient right out of his delirium. Less than ten hours after the treatment began, the man walked out, calm and clear of mind. After a week of treatment, he had entirely recovered...
...Delirium tremens usually lasts three to six days, and sometimes ends in death. This was one of the worst cases the doctor had ever seen. When the patient, a 37-year-old bartender, was carried into the doctor's office, imaginary rats were gnawing his feet, wild-eyed cats scrambling over his body, flames licking at his stretcher. The man was screaming and jumping with terror...
...they are as varied as men can be. This otherwise applicable generalization breaks down sensationally twice a year, however, with the coming of exam time, when the actions of Harvard men are as rigidly conventionalized as those of a pulp story hero. Almost uniformly, they lash themselves into a delirium of anxiety, committing breaches of form by buttonholing complete strangers from their courses and asking their thoughts on possible test questions, and scuttling busily in and out of bookstores seeking condensations of course material or outlines on How To Study. Strangely, this itinerary carries them back and forth past Holyoke...
Misconception No. 2. Drinking, he thinks, is the cause of his neuroses. The fact: drinking is the result, not the cause. Psychiatrists recognize only one mental disorder directly attributable to alcoholism: delirium tremens (which attacks 4% of alcoholics). According to Dr. Lolli, every alcoholic is a neurotic (or psychotic)-but the neurosis came first...
Other Soviet-style billingsgate: "Foulest of words . . . ancient and hackneyed gossip ... phantasmagoria of phrases . . . delirium of an impudent person . mercenary from head to heels . . . this savage . . . bandit . . depraved souls . . . product of the Stock Exchange and black market . . . scum. . . . How can you influence him? Such persons are not even beaten, so as not to stain one's hands...