Dipsomantia
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In medical j Jurtisprodence. An irresistible impulse to indulge in intoxication, either by the use of.aleohol or of drugs such as opium. This mania or disease is classed as one of the minor forms of in- Sanity.
19 Neb. 614, 28 N. W. Rep. 273; ‘1 Bish, Crim. Law, § 304.