Infectious Polyneuritis and Professor André Strohl — A Historical Note

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IN 1916 Guillain, Barré and Strohl1 presented their important paper describing 2 patients with infectious polyneuritis. They emphasized the high cerebrospinal-fluid protein and low cell count encountered in this condition. Since that time the syndrome has usually been referred to by a variety of synonyms such as the Guillain–Barré or Landry–Guillain–Barré syndrome.If an eponymic label for the syndrome continues to be employed it seems unfortunate to neglect the name of Professor André Strohl when the syndrome is mentioned. The only clear reference to this omission and Professor Strohl's contribution was made by Haymaker2 in his essay on Landry.A . . .