Fourteen Cases of 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...

the Butyric Acid Test for Syphilis in the Diagnosis of Metasyphilitic and Other Nervous Disorders

1. In the secondary and tertiary stages of syphilis without direct involvement of the nervous system the cerebro-spinal fluid yielded the butyric acid reaction of feeble intensity. The fluid under these conditions gave neither a positive cytodiagnosis nor the Wassermann test for syphilis. 2. The cerebro-spinal fluid of cases of hereditary syphilis showed a positive butyric reaction in about 90 ...

The Naso-Pharynx as Infection Carrier in Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

and in the Rhine coal districts. He points out that school epidemics are unknown ; that second cases in the same house are uncommon ; that cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis which have been put into scarlatina or other wards on a wrong diagnosis do not give rise to further cases in these wards ; and that meningococci are not found in the noses of the other children in these wards. He concludes ...

Two Cases of the Sporadic Form of Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

The following two cases of cerebro-spinal fever are the only ones that have occurred at the Bristol General Hospital within the last twelve years, and probably for a much longer period, but of that I have no certain knowledge. It is certainly worthy of remark that both cases were admitted within four weeks. I also learnt that the sister of the first patient was at home ill with high fever and d...

Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever