The alcoholic may become the dipsomaniac; but the child who is the victim of a transmitted taint is without doubt a dipsomaniac and not an alcoholic.
Like the reformed dipsomaniac I was determined to see what I could do without it.
I knelt at the shrine of money--loved it as a dipsomaniac loves his bottle.
Magnan[185] has given an appalling picture of the struggles waged in the mind of a dipsomaniac by the passionate eagerness for the bottle, and the loathing and horror of it.
The erotomaniac ‘degenerate’ stands in the same position to the woman as a dipsomaniac to intoxicating drinks.
The dipsomaniac and clastomaniac are sincere when they respectively drink or break everything within reach.
The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake.
A dipsomaniac needs to be taken away from home for a while.
Now a dipsomaniac mostly thinks he is in the right--except, perhaps, after he has been forced to be sober for a week.
That is the very last thing a dipsomaniac would do.
You suggest a dipsomaniac fought for the whisky bottle, and then having won, rolled it away in a corner, spilling one half and leaving the other.
It comes plenty close to killin' the mis'rable old dipsomaniac at that.
