dipsomania

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It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania.

From Time Magazine Archive

No "psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Kingsley, Charles

Tell me, how soon can you cure a man of—of dipsomania?…

From In Secret by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

But I must note also that the moral results may be as important here as in the cases of inhibition of dipsomania and the like, already mentioned.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)