Excerpt from Observations on Delirium Tremens But even suppose that inflammation exist in the stomach, accord ing to some, or in the brain according to others, or even in both, as it no doubt often does, is it not the merest madness to contend, in the present age of medicine, that the body thus diseased cannot be carried safely through without venesection? In typhus fever, and particularly in that form Of it so well known in New England under the name of spotted fever, there is infinitely more inflammation than ever was discovered in delirium tremens, and yet the most urgent stimuli were the only remedy.

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