[A description of pseudo-bulbar syndrome by the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez].

We present a case of pseudo-bulbar syndrome, identified in one of the characters of a classic of Spanish literature, Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez. In this prose poem, it can be seen that Darbón, Platero's 'doctor' has the symptoms of a typical pseudo-bulbar syndrome: dysarthria, dysphagia and emotional incontinence. The pseudo-bulbar syndrome is briefly reviewed, as are other descriptions of neurological syndromes in the non-medical classical Spanish literature of Juan Ramón Jiménez.