Asleep

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

By: Molly Caldwell Crosby

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Paperback | 18 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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'Riveting storytelling . . . The remarkable human connection Crosby brings to this scientific oddity helps enlighten readers about a pandemic forgotten in the shadow of the contemporaneous Spanish flu and till now memorializes only in Oliver Sacks's Awakenings.' - Publishers Weekly

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.

This book tells the story of an epidemic largely forgotten. The symptoms ranged from unending asleep to dangerous insomnia, facial tics to catatonia, Parkinson's to violent insanity. 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.

Doctors still don't know what causes encephalitis lethargica. They do know it may reemerge in the wake of a new flu pandemic. Asleep takes you into its frightening history-and the frantic effort to conquer it before it strikes again

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'Fascinating historical nuggets.'
- The Dallas Morning News

'Vivid, intensely human portraits of seven individuals caught up in the epidemic, and the physicians who did their best to understand and help them.'
- Oliver Sacks

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Author's Note	p. ix
Prologue: Inside	p. 1
An Unknown Soldier	p. 5
An Epidemic Begins	p. 7
Constantin von Economo	p. 13
The London Outbreak	p. 21
Ruth	p. 29
New York City	p. 31
Ruth	p. 44
The Neurologist	p. 50
The Medical Investigators	p. 54
Adam	p. 63
Adam	p. 65
Smith Ely Jelliffe	p. 71
The Alienist	p. 81
Only the Beginning	p. 92
Jessie	p. 99
Jessie	p. 101
1925	p. 109
A Two-Headed Beast	p. 117
Rosie	p. 121
Madness	p. 123
Rosie	p. 136
The Neurological Institute	p. 146
Sylvia	p. 155
The Matheson Commission	p. 157
Josephine B. Neal	p. 162
Vaccine Trials	p. 169
Sylvia	p. 181
I Have Seen the Future	p. 193
Philip	p. 207
Philip	p. 209
Gray Matter	p. 212
Past or Prologue?	p. 222
Epilogue: Virginia and the Forgotten Epidemic	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 279
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