单词 | mania a potu |
释义 | mania a potun. Medicine. Now historical. A mental disorder attributed to alcoholic consumption, usually thought to be characterized by extreme excitement and violent behaviour, but sometimes identified with delirium tremens. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium tremens delirium tremens1813 mania a potu1818 oenomania1852 D.T.1858 jump1879 jim-jams1885 jimmies1900 heebie-jeebies1923 1818 J. G. Nancrede in Amer. Med. Recorder (Philadelphia) 1 478 (heading) On Mania a potu. 1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 120/1 All the rules already given in regard to the management of delirium tremens apply equally to the treatment of such cases as we have classed under the head of mania à potu. 1896 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 42 129 The second case seems an ordinary case of mania a potu, but one excited directly by a severe injury to the brain and cord. 1926 A. C. Gordon Allegra xxvi. 232 Any ordinary learned member of the faculty..might reasonably have diagnosed his condition as one of mania a potu. But the diagnosis would have been both erroneous and unjust. 1979 Psychol. Med. 9 709/1 Magnan classified both mania a potu and delirium tremens under ‘acute alcoholic insanity’. 1994 R. Davies Cunning Man (1995) 413 Like many of his kind he had not yet sunk to mania a potu. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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