delirium tremens
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An autopsy later found that she had been experiencing delirium tremens caused by withdrawal from diazepam, an anti-anxiety medication that P.T.S. staff members said they were never informed she was taking.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016
The book records a period of acute psychological and spiritual disorientation, delirium tremens, the near-destruction of a literary intelligence, starring Kerouac as Jack Duluoz, “bloody ‘King of the Beatniks.’”
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013
The symptoms did not, to his mind, point towards delirium tremens.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
I lay very quiet, however, thinking that he was either a victim of delirium tremens or a lunatic.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.
The sword of the duelist, quarreling over women, the picturesque horrors of delirium tremens, and the loathsome mal de Naples continually swept away hecatombs of tyrant lordlings and frequently obliterated whole families.
From The Economic Functions of Vice by McElroy, John
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