Katzenjammer

The Katzenjammer ( students language, Goethe -time) may refer to:

• The hangover after a binge drinking with nausea, loss of appetite, headache and emotional upset and depression
• The disillusionment after exuberant joy
• Also pangs of remorse

The word hangover is the defused version of the original expression " Suck Jammer " from the Goethe- time.

The Latin equivalent, about the hangover has been found in the medical language input, ie Crapula, which means also noise in the translation.

The word belongs to the animal compare like lions mane, ravenous, Hogfather, Bienenfleiß, lousy weather, Dog Day, crying shame.

In the 19th century, the poet Friedrich Schlögl has described the hangover:

"Today is the sweet intoxication is over; the hangover remains. The hangover! There are different stages of this condition and also two kinds thereof. The so to speak physical hangover is to heal soon. In the People's Pharmacy for this is the use of " hair lay-up " a popular and usually infallible means. This hair now laying again varies in the nuances of the acid used for this purpose and is based on the habitual taste, the degree of education and the funds of the respective patients. "

Already in the manual of the druggists Practice, Volume 25: The first part of 1893 is specified as a use case for ammonia: ... Medical internally in small doses (6-10 TrpF. ) In ½ glass of water against drunkenness and hangover ...