The Family that Couldn't Sleep

Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery

• Author(s): D. T. Max,
• Publisher: Portobello
• Pages: 299
• ISBN_10: 1846270901
  ISBN_13: 9781846270901
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Diseases , Medical / Sleep Medicine , Science / General , Science / Chemistry / Organic ,

Description:... In 1765, doctors in Venice were stumped by the death of a man who suffered from chronic insomnia. Over the next two centuries, this rare, inherited disease continued to baffle the experts as it struck the family at random, passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse.