Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru. Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence 1955-1958 by Gajdusek, D. Carleton; Joseph E. Smadel - 1976

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1976. Paperback. Second printing, June 1976; 413p. plus [4]p. index, no illustrations at all, text reproduced from keyboard-set ms; softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed grey wraps. Mild edgewear, spine a little cocked, covers faintly dusty, entirely clean within, a sound, unmarked, very good copy. Laid in is a standard leaf mimeo'd with a hand-list of Gajdusek's published work, printed both sides, some 26 titles. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. DHEW Publication no. (NIH) 76-1168. Kuru a rare disease traceable to the consumption of the brains of dead people for ritual purposes. Symptoms can resemble polio, but there is great variation. The doctors also studied remedies (mostly unavailing) practiced in local medicine.