1917 CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959); CALMETTE, Léon Charles Albert (1863 – 1933); ET AL

Quarante cas d’encéphalo-myélite subaiguë.

Cruchet’s account of epidemic encephalitis was given on 27 April 1917, preceding that of Economo by 13 days. With F. Moutier

GMN 4649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/743

1917 ECONOMO, Constantin von (1876 – 1931)

Encephalitis lethargica.

Economo’s classic description of epidemic encephalitis (“von Economo’s disease”) was published on 10 May 1917; see No. 4649.

GMN 4650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8868

1919 LOEWE, Leo (1896 – ); STRAUSS, Israel (1873 – 1955)

Etiology of epidemic (lethargic) encephalitis. Preliminary note.

Experimental transmission of encephalitis lethargica.

GMN 4651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/750

1922 STERN, Felix (1884 – 1941)

Die epidemische Encephalitis. (Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Bd. 30).

Felix Stern was the leading German specialist in encephalitis lethargica . No national statistics for this disease, first described in Vienna in 1916, were kept in Germany. For this reason, the data collected by Stern…

GMN 12637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14878

1929 ECONOMO, Constantin von (1876 – 1931)

Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.

Translated and adapted by K. O. Newman as Encephalitis lethargica its sequelae and treatment. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

GMN 12642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14883

1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310

2009 FOLEY, Paul Bernard

Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.

Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.

GMN 12641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14882

2018 FOLEY, Paul Bernard

Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.

Both an historical and a scientific study.

GMN 12636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14877