Newton's Madness: Further Tales of Clinical Neurology - Softcover

Klawans, Harold L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060920505 ISBN 13: 9780060920500

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

A collection of essays about the strange and frightening things that happen when the workings of the human brain go awry

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From Publishers Weekly:

The often bizarre cases with which Klawans ( Toscanini's Fumble ) illustrates this collection of his lectures on neurology and pharmacology at Chicago's Rush University and with which he intrigues readers are both informative and entertaining. In clear lay terms he describes multiple sclerosis, dwarfism, epileptic and other movement disorders such as Parkinson's, Huntington's chorea, tics, as observed in his own patients. He also diagnoses ailments of historical figures--Newton's mercury-caused madness, Dostoyevski's epileptic characters reflecting his own seizures, Heinrich Heine's syphilis-induced nervous breakdowns--which today could be arrested or cured.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060920505
• ISBN 13: 9780060920500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240