A Case of Cerebro-Spinal Syphilis

The Long Fox Lecture: Cerebro-Spinal Syphilis

come a time when the lecturer of the day will not have known him personally, hence it is the more a pious charge on those who have had the advantage of his friendship to commemorate his virtues. For they know well that Edward Long Fox was a man held in especial honour and affection by his medical brethren in this city and neighbourhood. Honoured for his wide culture and knowledge of his profess...

Case of Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis)

The invasion of New York by cerebro-spinal fever in the winter and spring of 1904-5, when some 4,000 cases occurred,1 and the more recent appearance of the disease in Glasgow (March, 1906), in Belfast, and some other districts, invite attention to its causation and prophylaxis. It is generally recognised that a cerebro-spinal meningitis may be set up by various causes, such as disease of the mi...

Cerebro-Spinal Fluid Findings in a Case of Meningococcal Meningitis

smears made from the centrifuged deposit of the fluid, other findings such as the number and the type of cells, presence or absence of sugar, and the quantitative estimation of chlorides help to determine the diagnosis in a case of meningitis. Thus we say that meningococcal meningitis gives rise to increased polymorphonuclear cells and tuberculous meningitis to increased lymphocytes. This, howe...

The Treatment of Cerebro-Spinal Syphilis by Means of Sero-Arsenous and Mercuric Iodide

of Salvarsan, and further the cost of which is quite in the realm of purchase for general routine hospital use. Perhaps a review of the work of Swift and Ellis will not be out of place. When Salvarsan was first introduced the hopes of medical men ran high as it was thought; we now had a panacea for all syphilitic diseases, including the most severe para-syphilitic forms of locomotor-ataxia and ...