On the issue of narcolepsy as a consequence of epidemic lethargic encephalitis

Abstract

Sleep sickness or lethargic epidemic encephalitis, which swept through Europe and America between 1919-23, caused mass diseases in many countries with a wide range of lesions of the nervous system, from relatively mild forms of parkinsonism to epiliptoid attacks, mental disorders and mental degeneration. The peculiarity of this disease lies in the fact that by affecting to varying degrees the most important centres of life in the subcortical and hypothalamic regions, it is as if it was setting up a randy clinical experiment on tens of thousands of patients. The rarest complication in epidemics, lethargy and encyphalitis is symptomatic narcolepsy.

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