Part 79

It was made by Mr. Matthews, Portugal Street. It was not contrived by me.

Footnote 150:

London Journal of Medicine, vol. i, pp. 54, 976.

Footnote 151:

See Medical Times and Gaz., 1855, vol. i, p. 361.

Footnote 152:

Dr. Watson defends the original name of this complaint, delirium tremens. He says:—“But they who object to delirium tremens appear to see no harm in delirium ferox: whereas it is just as incorrect to say delirium is fierce, as to say that it trembles: it is the patient who is furious, even as it is the patient who trembles.” Now, in speaking of a patient, we may speak either of his mind or his body: we may say that a person is learned, or that he is fat. A patient may be fierce on account of the kind of delirium with which his mind is affected, and the term ferox applies both to him and the complaint; but the act of trembling affects only his body.

Footnote 153:

Med. Gaz., vol. xli, 1848, p. 102.

Footnote 154:

Association Med. Jour., 1853, p. 706.

Footnote 155:

See Med. Times and Gaz., 1853, vol. ii, p. 412.

Footnote 156:

Med. Times and Gaz., 1857, vol. ii, p. 553, and 600.

Footnote 157:

Med. Times and Gaz., 1856, vol. ii, p. 528.

Footnote 158:

Brande’s Chemistry, 5th ed., p. 1274.

Footnote 159:

Lond. Med. Gaz., Feb. 1842.

Footnote 160:

On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations. London, 1847.

Footnote 161:

Papers on Narcotism by Inhalation. Lond. Med. Gaz., vol. xli-ii.

Footnote 162:

Lancet, Jan. 1, 1848.

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