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The forced horizontal deviation of gaze, persisting more then 48 hours, has been observed during a rapidly developing hepatic coma in a patient whose post mortem examination did not reveal any structural lesion involving the central nervous system.

Seventy-seven patients with myocaridal infarction and ten normal individuals were studied in order to establish the presence of serous antibodies against platelets. With the complement fixation test antibodies were found in 6.4% of the patients and in none of the normal individuals. Leukoaglutinating and lymphocytotoxic antibodies were detected in 3.8% and 1.2% of the patients, respectively. No anti-platelet antibodies were found by immunoelectrophoresis or by double microimmunodiffusion neither in patients nor in normals. Rabbits immunized with human platelets had up to four antigen-antibody systems as shown by immunoelectrophoresis and double microimmunodiffusion. These rabbit sera were anticomplementary and thus they could not be tested by complement fixation test nor by lymphocytotoxicity. The data obtained suggest that circulating antiplatelets antibodies are rare and thus the possibility of their contributing further damage during myocardial infarction is also low. The alternatives to explain the low frequency of antiplatelet antibodies in patients with myocardial infarction are discussed.

A case of cysticercosis with scattered calcifications has been reported; this, owing to the rarity of cases brought to our notice with certainty, is considered a medical curiosity. The case is subjected to analysis by us and we review the literature pertaining to such cases.

The clinicopathological study of a case of relapsing complete bilateral external ophthalmoplegia associated with a sensory-motor polyneuropathy is presented. No other causes apart from diabetes mellitus were ascertained. The sural biopsy demonstrated an axonal as well as demyelinating neuropathy. The physiopathology of the rare cases of diabetic multiple bilateral cranial nerve palsies is discussed.

On an experimental basis the authors studied the process of repolarization and depolarization in high frequency electrocardiograms of 30 healthy children. The negativity of the T wave in V1 and V2 corresponds with the repolarization of the left ventricle and the positivity with that of the right ventricle. The vectors of repolarization of both ventricles were identified and found to be situated on a horizontal plane. In all tracings the electrical systole of the right ventricle was found to be greater than that of the left ventricle. The number of components of high frequency tracings in the intrinsecoid deflexion was greater on the right ventricle. The authors suggest that the high frequency electrocardiogram is a valuable procedure in clinical investigation.