This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. My attention was first called to this syndrome by an observation made on a patient suffering from hay fever and asthma of nasal origin, to whom I gave a nasal ganglion injection by the posterior palatine (palatomaxillary) canal route, which I described in the February, 1925, issue of the Laryngoscope. For a few weeks following the injection, the patient complained of a disturbance of taste on the injected side. In tracing the possible cause, I found that the sensory root of the facial nerve, the nervus intermedius of Wrisberg, which supplies the greater superficial petrosal nerve to the nasal ganglion, possesses taste fibers. These taste fibers probably pass from the nasal ganglion, along with the anterior middle and posterior palatine nerves through the palatomaxillary canal, to the roof of the mouth and faucies, and from there to the tongue. CASE REPORT Shortly after this observation, Mr. J. K., a