Word: delirium
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Like free lunch, the pink elephant is passing from the U. S. alcoholic scene. So wrote young Dr. John Burton Dynes of Boston in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Dr. Dynes interviewed 57 victims of delirium tremens in Psychopathic Hospital, asked each patient to describe the various Animals he saw leaping around on the walls, ceiling, bed. Only four drunkards saw elephants, only one of the elephants was pink. One patient howled that he was being devoured by a whale, another begged Dr. Dynes to save him from a raging hippopotamus. Other denizens...
...Delirium tremens may not be the result, but the Sophomore potentate. Joe Gardella, should be getting slightly confused shuttling back and forth from fullback to wingback, for yesterday Harlow revealed that Gardella will probably play at both positions Saturday since the second-string wing reserve, Bob Burnett, night before last stepped out of a car the wrong way and temporarily disabled himself...
...farms in southwestern Massachusetts. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, is ordinarily not widespread in the U. S. Its last large epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence of facial expression), insanity, sexual perversion, tremors and tics of all types...
...hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts of salt water to replace the salts lost in sweat. Artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain, but the precise effect of such an abnormal temperature on mental processes has not yet been discovered...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...