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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Uncle Bill Struthers is an example of what Kansas can do for a man...." said Mackworth, when we were alone. "Bill, in the old days, was a sort of tramp printer ... clever, but with all his ability in him unexpressed ... he was always down and out ... and drink! It verged on dipsomania. He never held a job long ... though he was a good compositor, he was always on the move from place to place....
Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania. Increased brain-power more brain-work; more brain-exhaustion more nervous desire for a stimulant, more rapid succumbing to the alcoholic habit these are the stages that can be noted everywhere among those who have had more "schooling" than their fathers.
The other day, an emphatic friend of mine committed himself to the opinion that, in England, it is better for a man's worldly prospects to be a drunkard, than to be smitten with the divine dipsomania of the original investigator. I am inclined to think he was not far wrong.
But dipsomania is not one of the pretty things of life; nor can it by any stretch of benevolent hypocrisy be made to pass as one. When Susanna and I get talking, we do not waste time in trying to spare one another's feelings. If we did, we should both see through the attempt and be very impatient of it." "Did she tell you what she intends to do?" said Marmaduke.
If he yields again, it will soon be acute dipsomania, and then " he shrugged his shoulders. "But what do you mean? What can I do?" said I, walking on by his side all the time. "Take him home. Give him hope and motive. Get him away, at any rate, before those fellows come. Mr.
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania, it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught. If existence were an evil, it would wait for no philosopher to prove it. It is like convicting a man of suicide, while all the time he stands before you in the flesh.
The patient's conduct is dominated by his delusion; thus murder and suicide may be committed. There are several forms: Kleptomania, a propensity to theft; common in women in easy circumstances. Dipsomania, or Oinomania, an insatiable desire for drink. Morphinomania, a craving for morphine or its preparations. Erotomania, or amorous madness.
I told him, and found that Trescott's dipsomania was as well known to him as myself. "He's been throwing money to the fowls for a year or two," he remarked. "It's better than two to one you don't find him at the Club: the atmosphere won't be congenial for him there." At the Club we found Watson's forecast verified.
Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like. They should be shown the practical value of pure air, pure water, unadulterated food, sweet and dry dwellings.
To all intents and purposes I have got the author of the stories locked up, for a man who has consented to undergo treatment for dipsomania in a private hospital, by the advice of his friends and under the care of a doctor with a great reputation, is as really in prison as if he were in gaol.
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