"Delirium tremens" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... H. The mother's brother had two attacks of delirium tremens. The mother died when the patient was eleven years old; she is said to have been normal. The father ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch
... with Mr Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the probabilities of Raffles's illness, reciting to them all the particulars which had been gathered from Mrs. Abel in connection with Lydgate's certificate, that the death was due to delirium tremens; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to this disease, declared that they could see nothing in these particulars which could be transformed into a positive ground of suspicion. But the moral grounds of suspicion remained: the strong motives ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot |
