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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
From 2,500 years concept of delirium has been evolving. In the 16th century, delirium symptoms were getting recognized. In the 19th century delirium was recognized as a consciousness and confusion, but as a mental disorders.<ref>{{Cite web | last = | first = | title = Delirium: how its concept has developed. [Int Psychogeriatr. 1991] - PubMed - NCBI | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1811767 | publisher = | date = | accessdate = }}</ref> | |||
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.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sims, Andrew |title=Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology |publisher=W. B. Saunders |location=Philadelphia |year=2002 |pages= |isbn=0-7020-2627-1 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref><ref>Dickens, C. (1837) ''The Pickwick Papers''. Available for free on [[Project Gutenberg]].</ref> | 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.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sims, Andrew |title=Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology |publisher=W. B. Saunders |location=Philadelphia |year=2002 |pages= |isbn=0-7020-2627-1 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref><ref>Dickens, C. (1837) ''The Pickwick Papers''. Available for free on [[Project Gutenberg]].</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Overview
From 2,500 years concept of delirium has been evolving. In the 16th century, delirium symptoms were getting recognized. In the 19th century delirium was recognized as a consciousness and confusion, but as a mental disorders.[1]
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.[2][3]
References
- ↑ "Delirium: how its concept has developed. [Int Psychogeriatr. 1991] - PubMed - NCBI".
- ↑ Sims, Andrew (2002). Symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. ISBN 0-7020-2627-1.
- ↑ Dickens, C. (1837) The Pickwick Papers. Available for free on Project Gutenberg.