The First Drug Discovered to Treat Wilson Disease

In 1955 seventeen-year-old Shirley Wiley was left in a London psychiatric hospital because nothing could be done to treat her debilitating neurological symptoms. She had lost the ability to walk and talk because of a copper metabolism disorder called Wilson disease. But then Dr. John Walshe came to her bedside and said he discovered a new treatment that could possibly help. Here's the story of how Shirley recovered and the first treatment for this rare genetic liver disease was discovered.