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The clinical picture of myeloneuropathy following abdominal symptoms has already been reported in details by us and others. Neurological manifestations that follow such abdominal complaints as pain, diarrhea, nausea, constipation or meteorism of varying duration, in most instances, suggest involvement of the spinal cord and peripheral nerve. The optic nerve is affected in certain proportion of the patients. This syndrom is seen sporadically as well as in epidemics.There are several reports on the histopathological findings of the nervous system in autopsied materials. They have been identified with none of the established diseases.The following is an account of the clinical picture of a patient who developed the symptoms during the treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and of the histopathological findings of the nervous system.

Changes in fatty acid patterns of lipids in serum and erythrocytes in-duced by dietary fats and in vitro incorporation of fatty acids into ery-throcyte membranes were investigated with pigs. On feeding various diets, it was found that fatty acid composition of serum and erythrocytes could be modified and altered toward the fatty acid pattern of the diet. In vitro, the incorporation of labeled fatty acids into erythrocyte mem-branes was accelerated by the addition of cofactors such as lysolecithin, CoA and ATP. Dietary fats also had certain effects on the incorporation of fatty acids into erythrocyte membranes. Erythrocytes, collected from the blood of pigs fed corn oil, incorporated and also released more labeled linoleate than those of pigs fed hydrogenated soybean oil. Palmitic acid was more slowly incorporated into erythrocyte membranes than linoleic acid in the pigs fed both a commercial chow and scheduled meals, indicating selective esterification of fatty acids in the erythrocyte membranes.