sleepy sickness

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Noun1.sleepy sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926sleepy sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness
cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis - inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
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The author's note at the end of the book includes information on Chinese history and encephalitis lethargica ("sleepy sickness"), and reading recommendations for both topics.
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It was his subsequent experience in a New York hospital in the mid 1960s, observing and treating patients with 'sleepy sickness', which was the basis for his 1973 book Awakenings--which decades later would be the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film of the same name.
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"My grandfather had become quite ill, having suffered with Sleepy Sickness or Encephalitis lethargica," he said.
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