Abstract
An attempt has been made to demonstrate, using the admission and mortality statistics over three quinquennia from the one hospital, that the routine use of prompt massive intravenous thiamine is lifesaving in a significant number of patients suffering from alcoholic psychoses and that the former common cause of death was in fact an acute thiamine deficiency cardiomyopathy.
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