Genealogy Projects tagged with Alcohol withdrawal on the Geni Family Tree

People Who Died from Delirium Tremens

Nicknames include "the horrors", "the shakes", "the bottleache", "quart mania", "ork orks", "gallon distemper", "the zoots", "barrel fever", "the 750 itch", "pint paralysis", seeing pink elephants. Another nickname is "the Brooklyn Boys" found in Eugene O'Neill's one-act play Hughie set In 1920's Times Square. Delirium tremens (DTs) is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal fro...