作者首先复习了文献,并指出准确诊断急性病毒性脑炎的困难,特别是在早期常与脑脓肿,脑栓塞,脑出血,急性多发性硬化,结核性脑膜炎等的鉴别有一定困难,作者总结了从1963-1978十五年内住入伦敦医院与病毒感染有关的60例病人,病人都是急性发病,进展很快有弥漫性或局限神经系的症状和体征,并将由其他原因引起的脑部炎症完全除外,此60例中男性37人,女性23人,分成以下三组. The author first reviewed the literature and pointed out the difficulty of accurately diagnosing acute viral encephalitis, especially in the early often associated with brain abscess, cerebral embolism, cerebral hemorrhage, acute multiple sclerosis, tuberculous meningitis and other identification of some difficulties, the author Summarized the 60 patients who had been admitted to London Hospital for virus infection during the 15 years from 1963 to 1978. All patients were acute and had rapid progression of diffuse or localized neurological symptoms and signs. Department of inflammation completely except for the 60 cases of 37 males and 23 females, divided into the following three groups.