Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis)
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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 middle ear, pneumococcal, tubercular, or streptococcal infection, or as a sequel to certain of the exanthemata ; but during the last years, the form (cerebro-spinal fever) which exhibits marked though erratic infective properties under predisposing conditions at present ill-understood, has been found to be definitely associated with the organism of Weichselbaum, the diplococcus meningitidis intracellularis. The history of the disease2 is not without interest. Its occurrence is veiled before the nineteenth century, but in 1804-5 Vieusseaux, of Geneva, distinctly described it. In the following year it appeared in America (Massachusetts), and the United States have hardly been free from it since ; it became widely spread during the Civil War. In Canada the outbreaks have 'been small, probably owing to the scattered population. In
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