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Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic 1st edition by Osborn, Matthew Warner (2014) Hardcover PDF

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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 InRum 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 First described in 1813 delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse Based on new theories of pathological anatomy human physiology and mental illness the new diagnosis founded the medical conviction and popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease By midcentury delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater poetry fiction and illustration This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century most notably in the classic Disney cartoonDumbo in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant Rum Maniacsreveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons

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Author:Matthew Warner Osborn
Publication Year:2014
ISBN:9780226099927
Pages:276
Language:English
File Size:1.5
Format:PDF
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