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They are constant in composition and free from any pathogenic organizens DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE WILL Allen & Hanburys Ltd. 40 Canton Road, SHANGHAI. Vol. 5 JOURNAL OF THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SOCIETY August, 1926 No. 2 All medical papers and other scientific contributions intended for the Journal, and all books for review and magazines in exchange, should be addressed to the Editor, "Caduceus," Hongkong University, Hongkong. Changes of address of members of the Society and all business communications should be sent to the Business Manager, "Caduceus," Hongkong University; Hongkong ENCEPHALITIS EPIDEMICA IN CHINA. A Contribution to the History of Encephalitis Epidemica MAXIMILIAN O. PFISTER, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. In a former paper (China Medical Journal, March, 1924) I endeavoured to give an extensive picture of the symptomatology of encephalitis epidemica and the first appearance and spread of the disease in Europe. Since then I had the opportunity of observing a good many more cases in China so that I am able to give in this paper a resumé of a hundred cases which for the greater part came under my observance during my stay at the Peking Union Medical College, and which have been studied very carefully especially from the neurological point of view. The literature on encephalitis epidemica which has grown so immensely in Europe during the last ten years, is still very scarce with regard to observations from China (papers on epidemic encephalitis in China will be found in chronological order in the bibliography at the end). I regret to say that this scarcity is not due to the fact that the disease is rarely found in China but to a great extent to the lack of interest which the general practitioner pays to neurological diseases; and yet neurology is one of the most interesting parts of medical science and must not any longer be considered so absolutely hopeless with regard to treatment as many medical men still believe. The epidemic encephalitis in particular belongs to a pathological entity of nervous disorders, which by involvement of only the extrapyramidal tract system displays quite a peculiar complex of symptoms of an interesting and polymorphous character. The disease is not at all rare in China, as it is still generally believed. Besides the many cases I have observed in northern parts of the country I have already seen five cases in Hongkong within a few months. With this paper I hope to give some stimulation for further studies of encephalitis in China. Table 1 shows the places, from where the patients came for observation. As a matter of fact more than half of the patients came from Peking or its immediate neighbourhood, seven were from Tientsin, the rest mostly came from cities, situated at the coast or at the lines of railway traffic. The province furthest interior, from which a patient was sent to us was Szechuan. Reliable observations of cases of encephalitis epidemica in the interior and the western parts of China have to my knowledge not been made yet, but from my experience in places where I found the disease present and where it has been unknown up to that time, I am inclined to presume that the encephalitis has by now spread all over the country in approximately the same proportion as has been found in Peking or in Europe. Of special interest is the sporadic outbreak of the disease in Peitaiho, which since 1921 occurred every summer among the foreigners. In the first years the cases were of a rather acute and severe form-several patients dying within a few days of their illness-lately the character of the disease has become much milder. The first incidences and the frequency of the encephalitis in the following years are given in the following table (2). Table 2. 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 (11⁄2 year) Number of cases: 5 12 8 20 23 26 6 |