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When delirium tremens, as it is called in medicine, sets in, people see certain kinds of animals, mice and the like, running all over the place. They suffer a form of persecution complex. Delirium tremens is connected with the phenomenon of people seeing themselves surrounded and attacked from all sides by small animals, especially mice. This is something that even has a historical background. There are structures called “mice towers” ( *Mäusetürme*). 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You probably know that some people suffer from persecution complexes, seeing all sorts of figures that are not there. Particularly in earlier times, such persons were bled—not a bad remedy, really. You must not believe that all people in the past were as superstitious as is generally assumed today. Blood-letting was not something derived from superstition. People were bled primarily by applying leeches somewhere on the body that drew off blood. The blood thus was less active. 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Wenn dieses sogenannte Delirium tremens, wie man es in der Medizin nennt, eintritt, dann sehen die Menschen überall eine Art Tiere herumlaufen, Mäuse und so weiter. Sie kriegen eine Art Verfolgungswahn. Das Delirium tremens ist ja damit verknüpft, daß die Menschen sich überall verfolgt fühlen von kleinen Tieren, von Mäusen namentlich. Das ist ja etwas, was sogar geschichtlich geworden ist. Es gibt Mäusetürme. Die haben meistens ihren Namen davon, daß da in früheren Zeiten irgendeiner eingesperrt war, der Säuferwahnsinn hatte, und der da drinnen von Mäusen geplagt worden ist, die er sich bloß vorgestellt hat — es werden schon auch welche drinnen gewesen sein —, denn der, der drinnen war, hat überall um sich herum, überall, Tausende und Tausende von Mäusen gesehen, die nicht da waren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-08/p012"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-08/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Sie sehen also, man kann dasjenige, was im Menschen wirkt, wenn er sich durch Alkohol ruiniert, sogar sehr schwer in den Körper ganz hineintreiben. Es sträubt sich der Körper durchaus lange Zeit gegen diese Geschichte, die durch den Alkohol angerichtet wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":41,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-08/p013"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-08/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Und das Interessante ist ja das, daß dann bei den Leuten sich das Gewissen regt. Sagen wir, sie haben eine Zeitlang gesoffen, frühmorgens weiter gesoffen, und dann regt sich plötzlich das Gewissen und sie hören auf zu saufen, sie haben sich noch dieses bißchen Energie aufbewahrt, daß sie nun aufhören. Was geschieht dann? Wenn sie früher noch nicht den Säuferwahnsinn gehabt haben, kriegen sie ihn dann. Das ist die interessanteste Tatsache, daß manchmal derjenige, der lange Zeit getrunken hat, wenn er nun aufhört zu trinken, gerade den Säuferwahnsinn kriegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-08/p014"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-08/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Das ist eines der wichtigsten Zeichen dafür, daß der Mensch so angesehen werden muß, daß der Kopf anders wirkt - ich habe Ihnen das in den letzten Vorträgen für viele Dinge angeführt - als der übrige Körper. Solange nämlich der Mensch die Säuferkrankheit im Kopfe erhält, da geht es ihm noch passabel; da hat er die Sache noch nicht im übrigen Körper drinnen. Wenn er sie aber drinnen hat und nachher den Alkohol sich abgewöhnt, dann revoltiert erst recht der übrige Körper durch den Kopf herauf, und dann kriegt er gerade durchs Abgewöhnen erst recht den Säuferwahnsinn.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-08/p015"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-08/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So kann man sagen: Im Blut des Menschen ist das körperliche Gegenstück für die wichtigsten Seelenverrichtungen. Sie wissen ja vielleicht, daß manche Leute an Verfolgungswahn leiden dadurch, daß sie allerlei Gestalten sehen, die nicht da sind. In früheren Zeiten namentlich - und es war das eine ganz gesunde Kur — hat man ihnen dann zur Ader gelassen. Man darf gar nicht glauben, daß alle Leute früher so abergläubisch waren, als man es heute annimmt. Aderlassen ist nicht etwas, was vom Aberglauben gekommen ist. 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