A practical essay on the disease generally known under the denomination of delirium tremens : written principally with a view to elucidate its division into distinct stages, and hence to simplify its method of cure / by Andrew Blake, M.D.

  • Blake, Andrew, M.D.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A practical essay on the disease generally known under the denomination of delirium tremens : written principally with a view to elucidate its division into distinct stages, and hence to simplify its method of cure / by Andrew Blake, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Since October, 1823, when a paper of mine appeared in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, on the disease which forms the subject of the present publica- tion, so many detached observations have been written upon this curious affection, in various parts of the world, as at once to show that it is either becoming gradually more prevalent, or that medical men begin to be more generally aware of the import- ance of being better acquainted with its peculiar nature and treatment. Syste-