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Delirium Delirious
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ DELIRIUM  id+ | LOST as if OFF THE NORMAL TRACK |
            id+ | UNABLE TO LEARN |
  implies DRIFTING  DEVIATION  MEANDERING
  as those who are
  DELIRATIOUS or are
  DELIRIOUS or away or deviated from
  lat LIRA for FURROW or TRACK
  linguists link the above with
  see> LEARN
  med> usually used to denote
       ACUTE and REVERSIBLE MENTAL SYNDROME
  thus also called
  ACUTE BRAIN SYNDROME or
  ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATE
  manifested by
  DISORIENTATION
  DISORGANIZED THINKING
  INCOHERENT SPEECH
  SENSORY MISPERCEPTIONS
  MISPERCEPTION OF TIME
  ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS
  ALTERED SLEEP CYCLES
  RESTLESSNESS and also by
  see> DELUSION
  see> HALLUCINATIONS
  may be related to ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
  cont> see> LEARN
 
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