Asleep : the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's greatest mysteries /
Molly Caldwell Crosby.
- Berkeley trade paperback edition.
- New York : Berkley Books, 2011.
- x, 291 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.