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L'alcool tue [Alcohol kills!] (circa 1900), after Eugène Burnand (1850-1921)

Health propaganda poster showing an alcoholic man with delirium tremens on his deathbed, surrounded by his terrified family. A calendar on the back wall shows the date "24", possibly representing Christmas Eve. Color lithograph after Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). Paris: Imprimerie Berger-Levrault, ca. 1900 (?). (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.)

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  • 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