Maybe flogging with nettles would be more useful in your specific situation ...
About "delirium" ... , hmm Dashushu ... here a picture about this theme ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/The_Absinthe_Drinker_by_Viktor_Oliva.jpg... from a place I once liked very much.
Often I sat in a famous coffeehouse in Prague and studied my books with a coffee or something else under that picture.
Now this coffeehouse is a tourist trap ... but the picture is still there ...
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