Unusual Case of Cerebral Malaria

A Case of Cerebral Malaria, Presenting Unusual Features

opinion that the publication of such cases helps to keep fresh in the minds of medical practitioners the vagaries of malaria. In this settlement of the Andamans we every now and then meet with rare, irregular, and interesting forms of malaria, and when you get such a case without the presence of other infections, it becomes doubly interesting, as I hope the notes below will show. Case.?Prisoner...

A Case of Cerebral Malaria with Unusual Onset

was reported to have had sudden vomiting and after several vomits she fainted. Examination?'Temperature on admission 99.2?F., pulse?140, respiration?40 per minute and regular. Lungs clear; heart nothing abnormal found; liver not enlarged; spleen 2 fingers below the costal margin; no rigidity of neck; limbs flaccid; pupils contracted; reflexes present and equal on both sides; knee-jerk slightly ...

Two Unusual Cases of Cerebral Malaria

A Case of Cerebral Malaria

was picked up and put to bed. The attending doctor saw her after about two hours; she was still unconscious. A bromide mixture was prescribed. Next morning, I was taken to see her. She had a temperature below 100?F., was still unconscious and had passed urine in bed. There was no previous history of epileptic fits, and the long continuance of the unconsciousness was against this diagnosis. On e...

A Case of Cerebral Malaria

History.?The patient had suffered for four years from frequent epileptic fits, sometimes occurring 4 or 5 times in a day. But after medicinal treatment, the patient had shown an improvement in her general health?the fits recently occurring once in 8 to 10 days. The previous evening, the patient had a pleasure trip by motor car without discomfort. Her last fit had occurred on the 9th July, 1951,...