Abstract

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 Dabney 2 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 pleurodynia 7 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 Beaumont 8 in an epidemic in Eton

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