Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008

A Journey Inside the Brain

By Oliver Sacks

Frigyes Karinthy (born in 1887 in Budapest) was a well-known Hungarian poet, playwright, novelist, and humorist, when he developed, at the age of forty-eight, what in retrospect were the first symptoms of a growing brain tumor.



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