The first day of the symposium was devoted to coma (J. Brihaye); the second day dealt with injury scalling (S. Lindgren and G. Stroobandt); the third day was concerned with brain death (E. A. Walker and E. Pillen) but no firm conclusion was reached and another meeting on brain death was planned in near future.
Apart from reports relating to intra-and extracranial tumours, few observations have been published on glossopharyngeal neuralgia in which a precise cause of this disorder was discovered. Pope s reported a case of neuralgia caused by pressure on the glossopharyngeal nerve by a thrombosed vertebral artery, and Lillie and Craig 6 published another in which the cause was an anomalous artery in the cerebello-
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