NARCOLEPSY
LITTLE KNOWN DISEASE SYDNEY, January 14. “Narcolepsy is not unknown, although it is an uncommon disease.” said Professor W. A. Osborne, Professor of Physiology at Melbourne University, who arrived in Sydney last night. He hva s referring to the case of a London woman who laughed herself to sleep at a Chaplin film. “The patient is liable to fall into profound sleep after any excitement,” the Professor continued. “There are two forms, one of which we call functional narcolepsy, which is .allied to hysteria, and is treated in much the same way. . “The other is due to degeneration of the brain. “Allied to it is the Kinneir Wilson disease. “Patients giggle their way along the path to dissolution, expiring with a final ghostly guffaw! “But cases of demi-narcolepsy—the homo cachinans genus—may be heard in the upper circles of any theatre vou care to visit !”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1937, Page 2
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