Rum Maniacs
Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Ardent Spirits and Republican Medicine
2 Discovering Delirium Tremens
3 Hard Drinking and Want
4 The Benevolent Empire of Medicine
5 The Pathology of Intemperance
6 The Drunkard’s Demons
Epilogue: Alcoholics and Pink Elephants
NotesIndex
“The real verve of the book develops our understanding of how medical ideas seep into culture (and vice versa) and lend validity to the tropes they create and come to, or wish to, leave behind. This is an energetic and magpie text, embracing evidence from medical and popular literature, theater, case histories, official reports, lecture notes, and student dissertations. . . . Osborn is certainly a gifted communicator and a historian to watch.”
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