Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0425238733
ISBN 13
9780425238738
Category
History
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Pages
304
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
