" Gets the horrors something dreadful.” “If a man has the DTs, isn’t it better to get him to the hospital?” asked Hamish mildly. "

― M.C. Beaton , Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery)