In medical jurisprudence. Delirium is that state of the mind in which it acts withont being directed by the power of volition, which is wholly or partially sus-pended. This happens most perfectly in dreams. But what is commonly called “de-lirium” is always preceded or attended by a feverish and highly diseased state of the body. The patient in delirium is wholly un-conscious of surrounding objects, or conceives them to be different from what they really
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
