epidemic encephalitis

noun

pathol a technical name for sleeping sickness

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Another travelogue through the primeval medical landscape is provided by Molly Caldwell Crosby in “Asleep,” the story of epidemic encephalitis lethargica, one of history’s great unsolved medical mysteries.

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epidemic epidemic meningitis

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