SEQUELAE OF ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA: NOTES ON 128 CASES

Three Cases of Encephalitis Lethargica

was somewhat prevalent in the adjoiningvillages.) Both had one or two watery motions each and both vomited twice. They had nausea also and were complaining of giddiness. This had occurred in the afternoon. Yet the children were moving about till the evening. Their mother got alarmed at their increasing giddiness and nausea, and sent for their father. He, being a doctor, found them somewhat unea...

On Cases of Encephalitis Lethargica in Bristol

Two Cases of Acute Encephalitis Lethargica

As the subject of encephalitis lethargica has been much discussed recently in medical circles in Europe, but very little mention of the disease has been made up to now in the Indian papers, the following report of two acute cases which have lately occurred in Calcutta is given in the hope that it may evoke discussion and lead others to report similar cases, so that some estimate can be formed o...

Encephalitis Lethargica

There is an cspccial fascination to the clinician attaching to a disorder which presents no single distinctive feature, which may simulate, or be simulated by, a large number of other affections, and in the recognition of which cytological, bacteriological, and chemical procedures have hitherto failed to afford any positive assistance. I may remind you that in the spring of 1917 von Economo5 di...

Encephalitis Lethargica

Encephalitis lethargica (EL) was named and described by Von Economo in 1916, and further detailed in a monograph in 1931 [1] following the pandemic of 1919 to 1926, but for many years was regarded as a phenomenon of the past. In recent years there has been a recurrence of interest in the disease, concerning aetiology and links with post encephalitic parkinsonism. Oliver Sacks described awakenin...