Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Bristol

Some Recent Cases of Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis

The following cases of meningococcic cerebro-spinal meningitis are described because there can be little doubt that at the present time there is a small epidemic of this disease in Bristol; and further, the symptoms and signs, especially in the early stages, are by no means easy to elucidate without the use of special methods, such as that of lumbar puncture.

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...

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...

The Value of the Chloride Content of the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in Diagnosis and Prognosis

cerebrospinal fluid in both the diagnosis and prognosis ?f various conditions included in the general term meningitis." Since 1912, when Mestrezat1 published his monograph on normal and pathological cerebro-spinal fluids, the value of cytological and chemical investigations lias become firmly established. The literature upon this subject is considerable, but references to the chloride estimatio...

The Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in Meningitis.