Word: deliriums
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...England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped her in the early stages of the disease directed treatment by cable. Three times King George and Queen Mary sent cheerful messages. But last week, when delirium set in, friends abandoned hope...
...Nevertheless they ended by falling prey to a species of delirium; a fever clothed the room in deforming mirrors. Then it was that Agatha grew gloomy, and was led to ask herself if this mysterious drug, however natural it was, might not prove to be quite as exacting as any other, and if all drugs did not end with turning...
...efforts of Director Dorothy Arzner to vitalize every possible emotional value of her material become too apparent, as in the mother's hysteria when she first finds out the child is gone, and in the final scene, when the baby, now adolescent, is called upon to choose, in delirium, between his real mother and his foster-mother. These faults are not important. Sarah and Son is a vigorous and moving story, properly told. It covers a long period, and the arrangement of time, perhaps the most difficult problem in building a cinema, is worked out naturally in the physical...
Other suggestions: 1) The new sickness is multiple neuritis (which almost always follows delirium tremens). 2) It is epidemic encephalitis (a brain inflammation which swept Japan last fall...
Facts. His father was a drunkard, his mother a consumptive. But he was a rugged babe when born near Mill Springs, Mo., in 1868. Delirium tremens and Death. as they must to all such drinkers, soon came to his father; his mother sent him away to relatives. When soon after, she died also, the boy overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge...