The Family that Couldn't Sleep: Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

The Family that Couldn't Sleep: Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery

D.T. Max

299 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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