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Irwin A. Brody, MD; Robert H. Wilkins, MD

Arch Neurol. 1968;18(4):449.

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IN the midst of World War I, Georges Guillain, J. A. Barré, and A. Strohl made an important contribution to neurology by reporting an illness in two French soldiers. The significance of their observation did not lie in the description of a new disease. Landry,¹ in 1859, had reported a similar condition, characterized by acute ascending paralysis, which was mainly motor and which usually led to complete recovery. Following this original description, Landry's paralysis had become a well-known clinical entity. The contribution of Guillain, Barré, and Strohl was made possible by Quincke's introduction of the technique of lumbar puncture in 1891² and consisted in the observation of increased protein in the spinal fluid without cellular reaction. The pathologic identification of the disease as a radiculopathy was not made by Landry, who observed no abnormality in the nervous system at autopsy, nor by Guillain, Barré, and Strohl, who . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Durham, NC

From the Divisions of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 30, 1967; accepted Nov 3.

Reprint requests to Divisions of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27706 (Dr. Wilkins).

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