Rum maniacs : alcoholic insanity in the early American Republic / Matthew Warner Osborn.

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Osborn, Matthew Warner [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226099927
022609992X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rum Maniacs : Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic.DDC classification:

362.292 23

LOC classification:

RC526 .O83 2014eb

NLM classification:

WM 274

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Contents:

Ardent spirits and republican medicine -- Discovering delirium tremens -- Hard drinking and want -- The benevolent empire of medicine -- The pathology of intemperance -- The drunkard's demons -- Epilogue: alcoholics and pink elephants.

Summary: Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered by the writer, caused by his addiction to alcohol. In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. At the heart of that story is the disease that Poe suffered: delirium tremens and the "fantastic terrors" that characterize it.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-258) and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (ebray platform, viewed May 6, 2014).

Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered by the writer, caused by his addiction to alcohol. In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. At the heart of that story is the disease that Poe suffered: delirium tremens and the "fantastic terrors" that characterize it.

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