A peculiar mass disease with a picture of epidemic bulbar palsy. John, Stonkerabrand (Münch. med. W., 1922 No. 43—44)

The authors report a peculiar disease, hitherto not described in the literature, observed in one asylum of r. Mlheimer'a. in Germany. The disease was clinically expressed by nausea, vomiting, dizziness, ptosis, diplopia, absence of pupil response to light and their dilation, Babinski's symptom, paraesthesias, nasal speech, difficulty in swallowing, cyanosis, Cheyne-Stokes breathing with good, regular pulse and normal temperature.