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

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

Summary

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.

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 beas... Read more
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x, 291 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Berkley Books 2010

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.196 CRO in Adult Non-fiction Available

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