All 5 Uses of
delirium
in
Middlemarch
- Fred's delirium, in which he seemed to be wandering out of her reach, tore her heart.†
Chpt 3 *
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death—who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision of the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue.†
Chpt 4
- Later in the day, Lydgate was seated by her bedside, and she was talking deliriously, thinking aloud, and recalling what had gone through her mind the night before.†
Chpt 5
- Even this Bulstrode felt that he would not have liked Lydgate to hear; but a more alarming sign of fitful alternation in his delirium was, that in-the morning twilight Raffles suddenly seemed to imagine a doctor present, addressing him and declaring that Bulstrode wanted to starve him to death out of revenge for telling, when he never had told.†
Chpt 7
- …Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the probabilities of Raffles's illness, reciting to them all the particulars which had been gathered from Mrs. Abel in connection with Lydgate's certificate, that the death was due to delirium tremens; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to this disease, declared that they could see nothing in these particulars which could be transformed into a positive ground of suspicion.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(delirium as in: fever induced delirium) a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinationseditor's notes: Delirium can result from high fever, intoxication, withdrawal, brain injury, and many other causes.