Cerebral poliomyelitis in early infancy.

The cerebral type of poliomyelitis, although described by Parsons and Barling (1933), is now seldom reported. The occurrence of this variant of the disease in infants seems to be excessively rare. All forms of poliomyelitis are, indeed, uncommon in early infancy (Mouton, Smillie, and Bower, 1950). This paper describes three infants, all probably infected from a common source, in whom the disease was followed by severe cerebral symptoms.