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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries QUOTES

1 " One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy. "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

2 " One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

3 " In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

4 " Women, it was believed, simply didn’t have the mind for science or medicine—in spite of the fact that Marie Curie had just become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

5 " It was not until summer break that the next episode began. This time, it arrived in the form of a respiratory tic, a compulsive sniffing. "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

6 " any psychiatrist who based his studies entirely on the subconscious, ignoring organic causes like disease, would build his theories on sand and watch the “psychological constructions collapse like a house of cards. "

― Molly Caldwell Crosby , Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries