Taste Reactions of Patients with Bell's Palsy

An account is given of investigations into the gustatory functions of 50 patients suffering from Bell's palsy. The aims of these investigations were: in the first instance to compare the results obtained from a newly described electrogustometric technique with the results from those techniques more generally adopted in gustatory determinations, and secondly to estimate the clinical importance of gustatory determinations partly for prognosis of the complaint and partly for topical diagnosis of peripheral facial nerve palsy.