Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism. A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after W…
A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case…
Now hailed as a medical classic this extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920's, and the astonishing explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug L-DOPA a…
Now hailed as a medical classic this extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920's, and the astonishing explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug L-DOPA a…