[Favorable effect of procaine administration in retrobulbar optic neuritis]. / Korzystny wplyw podania prokainy w zapaleniu pozagalkowym nerwu wzrokowego.

The author reports 12 cases of retrobulbar neuritis of recent onset in which intravenous procaine exerted unexpectedly an immediate favourable effect. The treatment consisted of intravenous drip infusion of 40 ml of 1% procaine in 400 ml of 5% glucose during 7 days. The author supposes that the therapeutic effect was due to the antiallgeric action of procaine (blocking of histaminergic receptors) and its spasmolytic influence.

[Urbach-Wiethe syndrome: hyalinosis and lipoidosis of the skin and mucous membranes as a neuroectodermosis]. / Zespól Withego-Urbacha: hialinoza i lipidoza skóry i sluzówek jako neuroektodermoza.

The author reports a case of Wiethe-Urbach syndrome (dermal and mucosal hyalinosis). The diagnosis was based on characteristic clinical findings in the skin and mucosal membranes and microscopic examination of the skin. Coexistent central nervous system dysplasia was characterized by brain atrophy, especially atrophy of the subcortical layers and two horn-like calcifications on the floor of the middle cranial fossa derived, most likely, from the dura.

[Short-lived semi-atrophy of the tongue]. / Krótkotrwaly polowiczy zanik jezyka.

The author describes a 47-year-old patient in whom lingual hemiatrophy developed one month after angina. The development of hemiatrophy was preceded by occipital headaches and pain behind the ear on the side of hemiatrophy. In the differential diagnosis the author excluded inflammatory processes neoplasms and developmental anomalies and thinks that the cause of this short-lasting hemiatrophy might have been tonsillitis with compression of the nerve by the oedematous inflamed tissues with action of bacterial toxins on the nerve.