mania-a-potu

Branwell's apartment and the theater of the most terrible tragedies of the stricken family; here that ill-fated youth writhed in the horrors of mania-a-potu; here Emily rescued him -- stricken with drunken stupor -- from his burning couch, as "Jane Eyre" saved Rochester; here he breathed out his blighted life erect upon his feet, his pockets filled with love-letters from the perfidious woman who brought his ruin.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885

_mania-a-potu, _ but had been produced by the excessive use of tobacco, which had slowly but thoroughly penetrated his nervous system.

The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

One of my delectable patients has taken it into his head to treat his wife and children to a rare show, in the shape of a fit of mania-a-potu; and, ten to one, I shall have to play spectator all night. "

Beulah 1872