Researches on 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...

Report on Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Clinical Notes on Cerebro-Spinal Fever

so persistent as in the tubercular form), suddenness of onset, then convulsive seizures and tonic spasms, much intolerance of being examined or handled, even when coma is beginning. The most striking clinical symptom is tonic spasm of the nuchal mv scles, with retraction of head, which cannot be replaced without great pain. Later, when effusion becomes established, and there is coma and Kernig'...

Bacteriological Report on Cerebro-Spinal Fever

renders it almost impossible to expect to obtain it from soil which must be teeming with other organisms which will grow much more rapidI37, and accounts for the failure of all observers to isolate the organisms from the surroundings of cases. The present inquiry, then, was necessarily limited to a bacteriological examination of fluids obtained from the cases by lumbar puncture and of material ...