Rum maniacs : alcoholic insanity in the early American Republic / Matthew Warner Osborn.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226099927
- 022609992X
- Delirium tremens -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Delirium tremens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Delirium tremens -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century
- Delirium tremens -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium -- history
- United States
- Delirium tremens -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Delirium tremens -- Pennsylvanie -- Philadelphie -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Delirium tremens -- États-Unis -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Delirium tremens -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Tempérance -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Delirium tremens
- Temperance
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 362.292 23
- RC526 .O83 2014eb
- WM 274
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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.
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.
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