Description In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness.
Sufferers from the illness would live their lives--if they survived--in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them.
But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar illness--lithium.
John Cade changed the course of medicine with his discovery of lithium; yet today most doctors have never heard of his name.
Allen & Unwin Finding sanity: john cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder, paperback/greg de moore
