[Background - Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is clinically well known since 1916. It can occur at any age. Its main characteristic is acute rapidly ascending flaccid paresis. It is a neuro-immunologic disorder with heterogeneous background. In Hungary we could not find reports about big paediatric population with GBS. Patient and method - We analysed retrospectively the data of 38 children diagnosed and treated with GBS at the Neurological Department of Paul Heim Children’s Hospital or at the Paediatric Department of St. László Hospital from January 2000 till April 2008. We analysed the clinical characteristics, seriousness of clinical signs, laboratory results, and electrophysiological features of them as well documented the preceding illness. We observed the effectiveness of our treatment; we measured the speed and time of the healing process and documented the residual clinical signs. Results - 35 children could be classified as having acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), 2 as having acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) and 1 as Miller-Fisher syndrome. By those patients who at the very beginning did not show the characteristic clinical signs, electrophysiology helped in establishing the diagnosis. By one child spinal MRI with gadolinium supported our diagnosis. Those children, who lost their ambulation, got immunotherapy: intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) or plasmapheresis (PEX). Both method seemed to be effective. None of our patients died. All were cured. By five patients residual clinical symptoms could be found. Conclusion - The disease process, the relative incidence of each subtype of GBS is nearly similar to that in Western Europe and North America according to the literature. By the currently used immune therapy most of the pediatric patients recover fully within a short time.]

[The trial of Galileo, who abjured his scientific convictions in the face of the Inquisitions was the most persistent and disturbing artistic theme of both Bertolt Brecht’s and Németh Laszlo’s writing careers. All three of them attended medical school. Galileo and Brecht never graduated whilst Németh’s medical work was subordinated to the art which became his vocation. The authors examine the genesis of Brecht’s and Németh’s dramas on Galileo, the possible effect of their medical studies or practice and their illnesses on their plays, and compare the work of the artists. This paper shows the process of their evaluating and re-evaluating their works and their struggle for further development of their artistic vision. Brecht’s and Németh's dramas, together with their formations and effects, can illuminate our understanding of the historically changing perpectivity of the scientific and artistic truth. ]