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delirium tremens (n.)[delirium tremens 词源字典]: 1813, medical Latin, literally "trembling delirium," introduced 1813 by British physician Thomas Sutton, for "that form of delirium which is rendered worse by bleeding, but improved by opium. By Rayer and subsequent writers it has been almost exclusively applied to delirium resulting from the abuse of alcohol" [Sydenham Society Lexicon of Medicine]. As synonyms, Farmer lists barrel-fever, gallon distemper, blue Johnnies, bottle ache, pink spiders, quart-mania snakes in the boots, triangles, uglies, etc.[delirium tremens etymology, delirium tremens origin, 英语词源]
Gallomania (n.): 1797, from comb. form of Gaul + -mania. Jefferson used adjective Gallomane (1787).
tulip (n.): 1570s, via Dutch or German tulpe, French tulipe "a tulip" (16c.), all ultimately from Turkish tülbent "turban," also "gauze, muslin," from Persian dulband "turban;" so called from the fancied resemblance of the flower to a turban.

Introduced from Turkey to Europe, where the earliest known instance of a tulip flowering in cultivation is 1559 in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart in Augsburg; popularized in Holland after 1587 by Clusius. The tulip-mania raged in Holland in the 1630s. The full form of the Turkish word is represented in Italian tulipano, Spanish tulipan, but the -an tended to drop in Germanic languages, where it was mistaken for a suffix. Tulip tree (1705), a North American magnolia, so called from its tulip-shaped flowers.
aboulomania: "W. A. Hammond's name for: a form of insanity characterized by paralysis of the will or morbid doubts concerning actions (now historical ). In later use also: = abulia", Late 19th cent. From ancient Greek ἀβουλία + -o- + -mania.
opiomania: "An uncontrollable craving for opium", Mid 19th cent. From opio- + -mania Compare French opiomanie, opiomane, adjective and noun.
oniomania: "An obsessive or uncontrollable urge to buy things", From Greek ōnios 'for sale', from ōnos 'price, purchase': see -mania.