The most frequent infectious cause is rheumatism; other infectious causes are cerebrospinal fever, typhoid fever, acute miliary tuberculosis, pneumonia and Sepsis.
In many instances, acute cerebrospinal meningitis is changed in this way by drug and serum treatment or by the use of ice bags into the chronic, so-called incurable infantile paralysis.
The peripheral portion of this system consists of the cerebrospinal nerves, which leave the axis in symmetrical pairs and are distributed to the skin, the voluntary muscles, and the organs.
It has often been said to produce that peculiar disease known variously as cerebrospinal meningitis, putrid sore throat, or choking distemper.
The whole may be arranged under two divisions: First, the cerebrospinal system; second, the sympathetic or ganglionic system.
The latter contains, besides, a large venous sinus, fatty matter, the membranes of the cord, and the cerebrospinal fluid.
The symptoms which typify sporadic or epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis in man are not witnessed among horses, namely, excessive pain, high fever, and early muscular rigidity.
The spinal cord, or spinal marrow, is that part of thecerebrospinal system which is contained in the spinal canal of the backbone, and extends from the medulla oblongata to a short distance behind the loins.
This disease may be mistaken at times for foreign bodies in the mouth or for the so-called cerebrospinal meningitis.
An excessive quantity of cerebrospinal fluid is present in most of the cases.
This disease is characterized by spasms affecting the muscles of the face, neck, body, and limbs and of all muscles supplied by the cerebrospinal nerves.
Inasmuch as a natural immunity does not appear after an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, it might be anticipated that serum of recovered cases would possess neither curative nor prophylactic qualities.
The medullary folds bend upwards, and finally meet above, enclosing a central cerebrospinal canal (fig.
Subsequently there appears in this cord a median slit-like canal, which forms the permanent central canal of the cerebrospinal cord.
In the case of the Tunicata the free larvae retain much more completely than the embryos certain characters such as the notochord, the cerebrospinal canal, etc.
The whole of the thickened nervous layer of the epiblast appears to remain united with the cerebrospinal cord, so that the latter organ is covered dorsally by the epidermic layer of the epiblast only.
The formation of the cerebrospinalaxis of the Chordata from the medullary plate has already been treated at length (pp.
He remarks upon a fact, noted in our Civil War and other wars, that under these conditions eruptions assume a hemorrhagic character in typhoid fever, cerebrospinal fever, rheumatism and other infections.
Finkelstein also has drawn attention to the occurrence of meningeal hemorrhage, and Hess and Fish reported obtaining bloody cerebrospinal fluid from a case with meningeal symptoms.
Sometimes, however, there are epidemics ofcerebrospinal meningitis--spotted fever, as it used to be called.
Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis is a very fatal disease at times in America.
The anterior lobe of the brain was evidently much wounded; an incision was made in the forehead and a portion of the frontal bone chiseled away entrance being thus effected, the aura was incised, and some blood and cerebrospinal fluid escaped.
In earlier times it was evidently confounded with gloss anthrax, and even now it is probably mistaken in a great many instances for anthrax, blackleg, cornstalk disease, and cerebrospinal meningitis.
The nervous system is often studied in two divisions--the cerebrospinal division and the sympathetic division.
The sympathetic nerves are closely connected with the cerebrospinal nerves, but are not under the control of the will.
The cerebrospinal division consists of the brain and spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
In cerebrospinal meningitis the causative agent is unknown, but probably exists in the feed.
Both the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic divisions have nerve centers.
The Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis is recognized as the cause of epidemic cerebrospinal fever, and can be detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of most cases, especially those which run an acute course.
Sleeping sickness" is a late stage when the organisms have invaded the cerebrospinal fluid.
Not only were cerebrospinalparalyses wrongly diagnosticated, but ischemic paralysis, plexus paralysis, arthritis deformans and synovitis.
Five months before admission there had beencerebrospinal meningitis.
This view is held by Sicard, who bases the idea upon the local pains and the results of cerebrospinal fluid examination.
Re hypertensive spinal fluid, Sollier and Chartier cite Dejerine as having brought the proof of hypertension in the cerebrospinal fluid in Shell-shock cases.
Pastine also has a case in which a slight improvement was produced on removal of cerebrospinal fluid, and a sudden and complete cure was brought about by the second puncture, a very painful tap.
Shell shock and its treatment bycerebrospinal galvanism.
The diagnosis of cerebrospinal syphilis, non-paretic, was preferred to that of paresis on account of the absence of all the ordinary symptoms of paresis and of tremor.
Their interpretation of such acute degeneration as was found in the fifth segment is that this degeneration, as well as that of the posterior roots, is due to the direct impact of the cerebrospinal fluid upon the cord structure.
Cerebrospinal meningitis is produced by a minute vegetable (bacterium), the Micrococcus intracellularis.
The accompanying illustration shows how these bacteria appear under the microscope; the drawing was made from fluid taken from the spinal canal of a patient suffering from cerebrospinal meningitis.
The brain was abnormally soft (some of the larger intracortical vessels showed plugs of leucocytes possibly indicating an early encephalitis--Bacillus cold and a Gram-staining bacillus were cultivated from the cerebrospinal fluid.
The cerebrospinal fluid revealed some abnormal changes which were suggestive of an organic brain disease.
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