Puppet disease Krainsky (Provisional Review, 1924, No. 2)

Abstract

This is what Krainsky (Br. Obozr., 1924, No. 2) calls chronic lethargic encephalitis. The main group of symptoms of this disease — the doll-like figure, cohesion, scarcity of movements and their slowness — raises the author's question: are we here dealing with a disorder of motor innervation, or with a change in the state of the innervated muscle itself? K. suggests the latter and explains this by a change in the colloidal state of muscle tissue.

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