Two cases of accidental hypothermia in Parkinson's disease with unusual EEG findings

Increasing awareness of the clinical entity of accidental hypothermia is apparent from case reports and observations in the medical literature in the last seven years. This paper described two patients, both of whom were sufferers from Parkinson's disease, who developed an episode of accidental hypothermia during which unusual and strikingly similar reversible electro-encephalographic changes were recorded. CASE REPORTS CASE 1 A 73-year-old widow, treated for the past four years with benzhexol and benztropine for Parkinson's 1'sease, was admitted to the Newcastle General Hospital 10 February 1964. For two years previously she had,own signs of progressive dementia; her personal habits:ind recent memory had deteriorated, and she had diffi-culty in dressing herself and was becoming aggressive i