POSTENCEPHALITIC OBESITY

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Abstract
Recently there have come under my observation four cases in which a rapid increase in weight was associated with the neurologic evidence of epidemic encephalitis. In these and in several similar cases reported in the foreign literature, the history of encephalitis was so closely related chronologically to the onset of the metabolic disturbance as clinically to indicate an etiologic relationship. In view of the ease with which such cases may be confused with simple endocrinopathies, and since two of the four cases were referred for study as presenting hypopituitarism, it may be appropriate to direct attention to postencephalitic obesity as a clinical entity, and to refer to experimental and pathologic data indicative of its neurogenic basis, so that a more general recognition and study of the condition may lead, not only to its clearer differentiation from endocrinous obesity but also, in some cases, to the retrospective diagnosis of mild, abortive

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