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
It is Wilkie Collins gone mad, Gaboriau in extremis, Du Boisgobey suffering from delirium tremens.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
An excellent English critic, Leslie Stephen, lately wrote: "Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens."
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
Trolls, with a touch of the delirium tremens, Neurotic neurospasts, puppets whose wires Are pulled by morbid dreams and mad desires; Not men and women 'midst our world's temptations, But fevered phantasy's bizarre creations.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various
