Asleep : the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysteries /
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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New York :
Berkley Books,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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?
