Cerebro-Spinal Fever

On the Occurrence Recently in Edinburgh and Neighbourhood of Unusual Forms of Cerebro-Spinal Fever and Intoxication Resembling Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

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...

Fourteen Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever

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 ...

A Case of Cerebro-Spinal Fever Successfully Treated by Intravenous Injections of Urotropine

a temperature of 103?F. He was examined and found to have Kernig's sign and all other clinical signs of cerebro-spinal fever. A lumbar puncture was done and about 30 c.cm. of turbid fluid, flowing at slightly increased pressure, were drawn off. This was examined bacteriologically and showed meningococci in abundance. Next day another lumbar puncture was done, 30 c.cm. of fluid drawn off and 20 ...