Word: deliriums
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...causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found out himself) and from then on it is just "madder music and stronger wine" until he is carried in a state of delirium tremens and general paralysis of the insane onto the returning boat. The man who does not get the best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about as Andrew Volstead. That for the moment...
...their treatment Drs. Klingmann & Everts deprive the addict of morphine suddenly and completely, give him small, frequent doses of the drug used in twilight sleep, scopolamine hydrobromide. After the third or fourth dose of scopolamine, wrote they, "the patient develops a mild, low mumbling delirium. He is quite busy, and often amused, by figments of his imagination and the occasional visual hallucinations of a not unpleasant variety-picking at imaginary insects on the bed and the like. He cooperates very well, obeys commands promptly and partakes freely of food and drink, and the enteric and urinary elimination is good...
...with Dean Paul G. Toohey that "the procedure is unjust ... an arrogant, unethical, immoral defiance of human rights." One of the most important things to learn in the studies of pharmacology and therapeutics is the untoward effects of drugs particularly hypotics. . . . Since Scopolamine even in small doses will cause delirium which means a condition of mental excitement and confusion and since it will also produce hallucinations which means that the mind wanders and the individual is in a false frame of mind-false sense of perception-I feel that it is unsafe, inhuman and should not be employed for that...
...least. She describes the heavy log-rolling that went on before Swann's Way appeared, in order to insure it a good press, Proust's anxiety about the reception of his work. Proust died in agony almost as soon as his masterpiece was finished, and in his delirium imagined that a hideous fat woman, dressed in black, had appeared in his room...