Delirium - Society and Culture

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Delirium is one of the oldest forms of mental disorder known in medical history.

Sims (1995, p. 31) points out a "superb detailed and lengthy description" of delirium in The Stroller's Tale from Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.

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