Word: lethargicae
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...HORIZONTAL-Duff Gilfond-Vanguard ($2.50). Onetime Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...
Once or twice during the next few weeks she raised her lids, but her eyes were blank. Frantically Mrs. Yarrington shook her, called to her, but Maxine slept on. She had Encephalitis Lethargica, probably caused by a filtrable virus, a type of sleeping sickness for which medicine knows no sure cure...
...part was scarred by an old inflammation. Both conditions almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute inflammation chiefly affecting the grey matter in the midbrain region. The secondary effects are inflammation of the capillaries and lymph...
...ucked until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...