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Drunkard with death. From “The Dance of Death” (1547)

Death is pouring alcohol down the throat of an alcoholic while another man next to him vomits from drinking too much. Copy of a print by German-Swiss painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the younger (c1497-1543) from 1538. First published in: Imagines mortis... (Images of death). Lyon: Johannes Frellon, 1547. (Source: Courtesy of the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Object number RP-P-OB-21.777[V]. Public domain.)

Associated Disorders

  • Alcohol intoxication
  • Alcohol withdrawal seizures
  • Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration
  • Alcoholic myopathy
  • Alcoholic neuropathy
  • Alcoholic pellagra
  • Autonomic hyperactivity
  • Central pontine myelinolysis
  • Cerebral contusion
  • Delirium tremens
  • Epidural hematoma
  • Epilepsy
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Hyponatremia
  • Korsakoff psychosis
  • Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome
  • Subdural hematoma
  • Substance abuse
  • Wernicke encephalopathy
  • Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome