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"The Drunkard's Progress" (c1846)

Print shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in a fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty and disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual "death by suicide"; two men, one on horseback and another with sacks, are in foreground. (Source: EB and EC Kellogg, Hartford, Connecticut, c1846. Courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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