Asleep : the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysteries

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Crosby, acclaimed author of "The American Plague," explores the frightening history of a long forgotten disease--sleeping sickness--and details the frantic effort to conquer it before it strikes again.

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Epidemic encephalitis History

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ISBN:

9780425225707

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysteries

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

An epidemic begins
Constantin von Economo
The London outbreak
New York City
Ruth
The neurologist
The medical investigators
Adam
Smith Ely Jelliffe
The alienist
Only the beginning
Jessie
1925
A two-headed beast
Madness
Rosie
The Neurological Institute
The Matheson Commission
Josephine B. Neal
Vaccine trials
Sylvia
I have seen the future
Philip
Gray matter
Past or prologue?

LCCN:

2009034928

Control Number:

697949

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