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"They cry, who want it; having it they laugh" (1773) (2)

(Alcohol addiction) Two old men, one is leaning on a staff and the other is embracing a tankard; their unkempt appearance is indicative of the ravages of alcoholism. (Source: "Human passions delineated in above 120 figures...designed in the Hogarthian style.." by Tim Bobbin [ie, pseudonym of English caricaturist and satirical poet John Collier, 1708-1786] and engraved by Thomas Sanders. London, 1773. Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. 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