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...children to treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo. Doctors at the hospital determined that Jonathan had meningitis, a life-threatening but treatable inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Françoise Ngave, a nurse in the children's ward, said, "If he stays here, he can live," but his mother had little hope left...
...There, he made himself into Bob Dylan by reading everything - the poetry of Rimbaud and the Beats, non-fiction on issues of the day - that graced the coffee tables of friends whose living-room couches he crashed on. "I began cramming my brain with all kinds of deep poems," he writes in Chronicles. "It seemed like I'd been pulling an empty wagon for a long time and now I was beginning to fill it up and would have to pull harder." He burrowed into the microfilm files of the New York Public Library to research the social issues...
...Treatment to help prevent severe newborn jaundice and resulting brain damage...
...Newborn screening tests to identify treatable conditions that would otherwise result in permanent brain damage or death...
...Finally, Don himself remembered that he used to play with the mercury from his office blood-pressure machine?with his bare hands - back before we knew much about the toxicity of mercury. There was a big "aha" from the neurologists. It was a subtle, localized brain disease related to mercury poisoning. It was a diagnostic victory, won largely by a sick brain, Don?s brain, trying to cure itself...