ncephalitis" is a disease that inflames or damages the brain. By administering L-dopa.... "To administer" a drug is to officially give it to a patient. Do you think a simple Parkinson’s tremor taken to its extreme would appear as no tremor at all? A "tremor" is the act of shaking. If an argument or example is "taken to its extreme," it is presented as the most extreme form in order to make an example or a point ("Political instability, taken to its extreme, could cause the government to fall…"). Suppose there’s a patient with all the Parkinson’s compulsions, the hand tremors, the head bobbing, the ticking.... "Suppose" is a common way of starting a sentence if you want a listener to imagine a possibility that hasn’t happened yet. "Compulsions" are behaviors that people do, even if they don’t really want to. "To bob" is to move up and down, and a "tick" is a physical shaking that a patient can’t control, such as an arm that always moves to scratch their head, even when they don’t itch. Might they all cave in on themselves, and in effect, turn a person into stone? If something "caves in," it falls down or collapses. I’m just a chemist, doctor, you’re the physician. I’ll leave it to you to do the damage. A "chemist" is a scientist who works with chemicals, and a "physician" is another word for a doctor. You know, Freud believed in miracles, prescribing cocaine like it was candy... Freud was an Austrian doctor who founded modern psychology. ...and we all believed in the miracle of cortisone until our patients went psychotic on it. "Cortisone" is a well-known drug. If a person is "psychotic," they are emotionally disturbed, and often unable to understand reality. With all due respect, I think it’s rather too soon to say that. A common way of starting a sentence if you want to be respectful, but you also plan to disagree with what was just said. I read them all dutifully, soberly. All 30 cases had Parkinson’s. Mild Parkinson’s. To do something "dutifully" is to do it with respect and care, and to do something "soberly" is to do it carefully (sober is the opposite of drunk or inebriated). If a case of a disease is "mild," it’s not strong or serious. Your patients haven’t moved in decades. A decade is a period of 10 years. You know better than to make a leap like that. A "leap" is a long jump, and in this case, refers to a leap in logic (For example, You should not think X is true just because Y is false). The family’s consent. Signed. "Consent" refers to legal approval, in this case, to allow Dr. Sayer to experiment with the L-dopa drug. His symptoms are like Parkinson’s, but then again, they’re not. The outward signs of a disease. In this case, such as their shaking or inability to control their body. What do you t
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