What is "lethargica"

Usage examples of "lethargica".

I could have had tuberculosis or anthrax or smallpox, I could have had encephalitis lethargica, better known as sleeping sickness.

You know, of course, that he's had Encephalitis Lethargica, sleepy sickness, as it's commonly called?

In 1916, in one such case, people in Europe and America began to come down with a strange sleeping sickness, which became known as encephalitis lethargica.

We know a hundred things that will kill the slug-smallpox, typhus, syphilis, encephalitis lethargica, Obermeyer's virus, plague, yellow fever, and so on.

We know a hundred things that will kill the slug-smallpox, typhus, syphilis, encephalitis lethargica, Obermeyer’.

And we've called it a kind of sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica.