A Few Remarks on the Treatment of Delirium Tremens
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alcohol, to try this simple expectant treatment, which, if successful, has so much to recommend it. There are few diseases that have been treated on more entirely contrary plans than the one now under notice, chiefly because different pathologists have, taken such opposite views of its essential nature. It has often been considered as an inflammatory affection and treated antiphlogistically, though seldom in the present day. By many it is considered to depend on "nervous irritation," as Dr. Watson calls it, and is then treated by opium, digitalis
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تاریخ انتشار 2016