Chemotherapy in Cerebrospinal Fever: Experience with Sulphathiazole in a Recent Epidemic of the Disease in Osmanabad in H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions

nitely diagnosed as cerebrospinal fever. Of these 50 cases, 29 were treated as in-patients in the Infectious Diseases Ward of the Local Civil Hospital. Eleven cases were treated outside the hospital by isolating the patients, as far as possible, in their own houses. The remaining 10 cases either refused treatment of any kind or were treated by the local unqualified practitioners. Of this last group of 10 cases, 8 ended fatally, while out of 29 hospital cases only 2 died. All the 11 cases treated outside the hospital, but on the lines adopted for the hospital cases, recovered. In all the cases coming under observation during this epidemic, clinical symptoms were of the usual type. The onset was abrupt, though in some cases there was naso-pharyngeal catarrh,