'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of
viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' –
Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major
feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV
documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary
account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the
sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the
First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital:
motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but
exhibiting no interest in it – until Dr Sacks administered the
then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake
from their decades-long slumber . . .
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