CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS: DIAGNOSIS AND PROPHYLAXIS

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 Meningitis in Burma

The following four cases of meningitis and cerebro-spinal ralmingitis occurred in the Akyab jail during the months of November and December last. The origin of the disease was very obscure since all "the patients had been inmates of the jail for some long period previous to being attacked, and according to the registers no cases of this latter disease have ever occurred either in the Akyab jail...

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Bristol

Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret SUMMER, 1940.

Acriflavin in Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Akyab Jail

Nos. 3 and 4 worked in the same workshop. Nothing more definite than this could be ascertained. The symptoms were in all cases fairly typical, and the diagnosis easily established. A prominent feature was the rapid onset with high fever and restless delirium, followed by a period of depression of physical and mental powers. The temperature was mostly of an irregular type, while the pulse and re...