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Rum maniacs : alcoholic insanity in the early American Republic / Matthew Warner Osborn.
LIBRA RC526 .O83 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osborn, Matthew Warner, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delirium tremens--United States--History--19th century.
- Delirium tremens.
- 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.
- Temperance.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226099897
- 022609989X
- OCLC:
- 851285681
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