Delirium Tremens

de-lir'i-um tre'menz, a wandering of the mind due to prolonged intoxication. The victim of alcoholic beverages, opium, belladonna, cocaine, and other drugs is overtaken by an ungovernable trembling of the body, loss of appetite, and wakefulness, and is subject to illusions of the senses, such as seeing darting, hissing serpents and hearing terrifying noises when there are none. Rest, quiet, sleep, and a restored appetite are depended on to effect a cure; but the victim is frequently but a quaking shadow of his former self, will and energy quite gone. It is properly an alcoholic derangement of the nervous system.