Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a hangover, delirium tremens.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1933		‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 247: Delerium tremens, or [...] quart-mania.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 945/2: ca. 1860–1910.