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

But merely seeing snakes in delirium tremens does not make him a naturalist.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

This will, no doubt, give you delirium tremens, night-mare, St. Vitus' dance and indigestion, but the pleasing thought will remain that you have kept the rest of the household awake as well as yourself.

From The Silly Syclopedia by Lott, Noah [pseud.]

Europe, which does not see well the causes, shudders at this delirium tremens of despotism in America.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count