The family that couldn't sleep : unravelling a Venetian medical mystery
Max, D. T. (Daniel T.)2007
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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 to generation like a deadly dynastic curse.
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Imprint:
London : Portobello, 2007.
Collation:
xxxi, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 2006.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846270895 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.83616.8'3
Local class:
616.83
Language:
English
BRN:
493774