二十四年前,我走进了加尔莫罗山医院的病房,遇到了那些引人注目的脑炎后患者。这种可怕的流行性脑炎(又叫昏睡性脑炎)在一战刚刚结束时就爆发了。而这些患者从那时起就一起被禁闭在这里。半个世纪以前第一个界定流行性脑炎的冯·埃科诺莫曾经把最严重的患病者比作“死火山”。任何人包括他自己在内都不曾料想,一九六九年春天,这些“死火山”重新迸发了生命的活力。加尔莫罗山的宁静气氛因此被打破——出现在我们面前 Twenty-four years ago, I walked into the ward at Mount Garmoshan Hospital and met those striking post-encephalitis patients. This terrible epidemic encephalitis (also known as drowsiness encephalitis) broke out just after the end of World War I. Since then, these patients have been confined here. Von Ekonomo, the first to define epidemic encephalitis half a century ago, compared the worst sick person to “extinct volcano.” No one, including himself, would have expected that in the spring of 1969 these “extinct volcanoes” would once again burst out the vitality of life. The tranquil atmosphere of Mount Garmulo was therefore broken - before us