Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be...
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Dr. Peter Ingham:
Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
Dr. Sayer:
What's it like to be them? What are they thinking?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
Dr. Sayer:
We know what for a fact?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
Yes.
Dr. Sayer:
Because?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
Because the alternative is unthinkable.
Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
Dr. Sayer:
What's it like to be them? What are they thinking?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
Dr. Sayer:
We know what for a fact?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
Yes.
Dr. Sayer:
Because?
Dr. Peter Ingham:
Because the alternative is unthinkable.
Transcript
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At times the curtains of the eye Lift without a sound
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And a shape enters
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Slips through the tightened silence Of the shoulders
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Reaches the heart and dies
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SAYER Have you heard of the drug L dopa
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COSTELLO What It's a synthetic dopamine
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Oh yes I did For Parkinson's patients yeah Why
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SAYER Nothing
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 170
Timestamp in movie: 00h 38m 29s
Uploaded: 03 April, 2022
Genres: biography, drama
Summary: The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
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