Asleep

The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, Nervous System & the Brain, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby ISBN: 9781101185681
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: March 2, 2010
Imprint: Berkley Language: English
Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
ISBN: 9781101185681
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: March 2, 2010
Imprint: Berkley
Language: English

A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague.

In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived.

Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims-who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.

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A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague.

In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived.

Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims-who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.

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