James Ellison) dipsomania ways Richard Gilmore, a character in the TV series Gilmore Girls, refers to a fundraiser speaker as a dipsomaniac in the season one episode "P.S. I Lo..." Susanna Conolly (alias Lalage Virtue, a talented singer and player), in George Bernard Shaw's first novel The Irrational Knot. Raymond Reddington, a character played by actor James Spader in the TV series The Blacklist, uses the term while referring to a bogus DUI charge being used as blackmail in the season 4 episode "Lipet's Seafood Company (No. 111)". Leaving Las Vegas, Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage), 1995, is listed by many doctors and specialists as a to watch on this issue. This movie is heavily about this issue and listed in numerous lists about this issue. John Barth, "Ambrose His Mark" The neighbor has returned from the asylum "whither he repaired to cure a sudden dipsomania." From the short story collection "Lost in the Funhouse." Examples in science William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin writing to George FitzGerald on April 9, 1896: "I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since Nov. 28, 1846 (see vol i. p. 80 M.P.P). "All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject." See also Holiday heart syndrome Potomania Zapoy References Citations Works cited External links 1819 introductions 1810s neologisms Alcohol and health Mania Obsolete medical terms Substance-related disorders