It may be a far more remote inheritance that has started the degenerative psychosis that results in either insanity, feeble-mindedness, dipsomania, or "general debility of character."
This kind of dipsomania lives by increasing its doses.
Some are also free words, such as "mania" in "dipsomania" and "phobia" in "claustrophobia".
Many themes are explored in the lives of his family, particularly luxurious frivolity (especially in the 1920s) and dipsomania.
Alienists created a whole new series of diagnoses that highlighted single, impulsive behavior, such as kleptomania, dipsomania, pyromania, and nymphomania.
The idea of dipsomania is important for its historical role in promoting a disease theory of chronic drunkenness.
Dipsomania is occasionally still used to describe a particular condition of periodic, compulsive bouts of alcohol intake.
In the 19th century, dipsomania was a variety of alcohol-related problems, most of which are known today as alcoholism.
