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Arch Neurol. 2002;59:480-481.

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OCULOSYMPATHETIC paralysis, also known as Horner syndrome, develops when a lesion in the brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerve fibers interrupts the sympathetic innervation to the eye. The result is a droopy upper eyelid, an elevation of the lower lid, a slightly sunken eye, a smaller pupil, loss of sweating on the affected side, and an acutely red eye. This condition has also been observed in Russian cosmonauts during space flight, where it results from dysfunction of the sympathetic innervation.¹

An anonymous artist, painting around AD 190-210, depicted acute unilateral Horner syndrome in a funerary portrait of a youth that was made to cover the mummy's head, shown in Figure 1. We propose that the scrutiny of mummy portraits illuminates the neurobiologic and social history of diseases in antiquity. At the same time, the diseases portrayed may offer clues to the practice of mummy portraiture.²

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