This is extremely rare as a result of a simple abscess of the brain, but is significant of encephalitis frequently associated with meningitis (see p.
If the encephalitis subsides, the hernia will not increase in size, and if the wound cavity be kept aseptic, it may gradually shrink.
Recently the medical profession has been called on to treat many cases of encephalitis lethargica where similar symptoms are observed.
Some of the cases of encephalitis which are supposed to be due to some unknown bacterium, may really be alcoholic in origin.
Encephalitis is the gravest of the untoward results of injection, sometimes appearing in young and vigorous subjects.
Chronic encephalitis may effect an animal for ten days or two weeks without much variation in the symptoms before the crisis is reached.
If the disease becomes chronic (encephalitis or meningitis), we must place our reliance upon alteratives and tonics, with such incidental treatment as special symptoms may demand.
Acute encephalitis may be ushered in by an increased sensibility to noises, with more or less nervous excitability, contraction of the pupils of the eyes, and a quick, hard pulse.
In all cases of encephalitis there is a marked rise in temperature from the very onset of the disease, with a tendency to increase until the most alarming symptoms develop, succeeded by a decrease when coma becomes manifest.
Chronic encephalitis or meningitis may succeed the acute stage, or may be due to stable miasma, blood poison, narcotism, lead poisoning, etc.
Owing to severity of the structural injury to the brain or the possible rupture of blood vessels and blood extravasation, the reaction may often be followed by encephalitis or cerebritis, and will then have to be treated accordingly.
Cold applications to the head and the general treatment recommended for encephalitisare indicated.
