Tick paralysis in British Columbia.

THE death at Rossland of a three-year old girl, on May 1, 1938, from tick paralysis has again focussed attention on this obscure disease. The literature on tick paralysis is scanty. McCornack6 reported on 8 cases that he had seen and 6 more described to him by physicians, all occurring in Washington, Idaho or Montana. In his bibliography he quotes the important papers of Todd from 1912 to 1919, dealing with 9 cases of tick paralysis in British Columbia. Since 1921 only a few short papers on this subject have appeared, including those of Bruce,1 Moilliet,5 and Gregson in Canada; Parker9 in the United States; Brumpt2 in France, and Oswald and MlinacT 8 in Yugoslavia. This disease is also being studied in Australia and South Africa, but we have no publications from these workers.