Word: delirium
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Secretly he dosed some drunkards arrested near the Cornell campus in Ithaca, N. Y. The dosed drunkards quickly recovered from attacks of delirium tremens, although they were not cured of their craving for drink...
...Berkeley, Calif, laboratory last fortnight the sallow young experimenter, with all the care and skill that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than Dog No. 3's had been...
There is a quality of delirium about facts like these. Anyone who comes upon them for the first time is likely to feel a sense of incredulity that these can be facts at all; to feel that they must be, instead, some insane fiction of super-Voltaire...
When Sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies was commissioned (in the will of Mrs. Angelina Crane) to fashion a statue of Civic Virtue for Manhattan's City Hall Park, he modeled an upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident...
...convenient yellow fever epidemic enables Miss Julie to contest this rude apostrophe before the end of Jezebel. Preston falls ill and blubbers about her in delirium. His wife is ready to accompany him to a quarantine island, from which no visitor returns alive, but it is Miss Julie who shuffles tragically along beside Preston's litter on its way to the lazaretto while her '"niggers" sing sad spirituals...