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CLINICAL AND BACTERIOLOGIC STUDIES

R. R. MacDONALD, M.D.; BARBARA HEWELL, M.D.; MERLIN L. COOPER, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1937;53(6):1425-1434.

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Epidemic myalgia, or pleurodynia, while recognized by Finsen in Iceland in 1856, was first reported in 1874.¹ Its first description in the American medical literature was by Dabney² in 1888. Numerous epidemics have been reported in the foreign medical literature, particularly in the Scandinavian countries. In the United States epidemics have occurred chiefly in the eastern and the southern states. The disease has been designated epidemic muscular rheumatism,³ Bornholm disease,⁴ epidemic myositis,⁵ Sylvest-Bing's disease,⁶ epidemic pleurodynia⁷ and epidemic myalgia.⁷ In the lay press it is commonly referred to as devil's grip. Descriptions of the clinical course of the disease vary little in their essentials; they were summarized in an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1934.⁷

Reports of the bacteriologic observations in this disease have been inconclusive. Attlee, Amsler and Beaumont⁸ in an epidemic in Eton . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the Children's Hospital Research Foundation and the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati.

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