Delirium
Subtitle: Acute Confusional States
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 1, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780195061505
First sentence: The term "delirium" stems from the Latin word delirare, which literally means to go out of the furrow (lira, Latin for furrow) but whose vernacular meaning is to be deranged, crazy, out of one's wits (1).