Polioencephalitis Hæmorrhagica Superior

A Case of Acute Polioencephalitis Superior

C. D., female, aged eight, European, was admitted to Madras Lunatic Asylum on July 3rd, 1911, suffering from " Acquired Idiocy." Family history, good, paternal side. Neuropathic and alcoholic, maternal side. Personal History.?Previous to March 1911, child was bright and intelligent, and was about average or a little above it in her class at school. About that time she was noticed to become irri-

Treatment of Purpura Hæmorrhagica

A Case of Spirochætosis Ictero-Hæmorrhagica

MOST menI in genieral practice, especiall) perhaps in rural areas, are liable to see a case of spirochaetosis ictcro-halmorrhagica at some time or other. WVith the increased food production cIrive, rats are to be expected where grain is collected in and around farmyards, in spite of the constant warfare against these rodents. According to Hurst, about twenty-five per cent. of rat populationi is...

A Case for Diagnosis: (? Variola or Purpura Hæmorrhagica)

PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA). To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?On the 14th June, 1927, I was called in to attend a Hindu boy, aged about 13 years, whom I found to be unconscious, with a temperature of 103.4?F., and with constipation of two days' standing. I wasft told that prior to this illness, the boy had always been healthy. The day before he had been apparently in perfect health, ta...

Fatal fulminant pan-meningo-polioencephalitis due to West Nile virus.

We report a case of fatal fulminant West Nile virus (WNV) meningoencephalitis in an 87-year-old white male gardener. The Pennsylvania patient presented with a 3-day history of flu-like symptoms. His hospital course was gravely precipitous with onset of coma, ventilator dependence, loss of cortical and brainstem functions within ten days of admission. Acute serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples ...