Unfortunately the symptoms of meningitis increased; three days after the operation coma followed, and on the next day death ensued.
Our conception of the pathology of epidemic meningitis is implicitly contained in the foregoing discussion.
Again, in one generation there may be a marked tendency to insanity; in the next, to paralysis; in a third, to tubercular meningitis during infancy.
By far the greatest number of the subjects of epidemic meningitis are young persons.
A second is malignant fever, and a third is congestive fever, neither of which has claimed many victims in the health reports of Philadelphia except while meningitiswas epidemic.
The alternate delirium or coma and clearness of mind in meningitis contrast with the persistent hebetude, stupor, or muttering delirium and the muscular relaxation in typhoid fever.
Since the thermometer has been used in the study of epidemic meningitis greater accuracy of results has been attained, and yet the general statements of the earlier observers have been confirmed.
All of these influences are constant, but epidemic meningitis is the rarest of epidemic diseases, and the agencies referred to have no further operation than to lessen the resistance of the body to morbid influences of every description.
There ought to be no doubt whether epidemic meningitis should be classed with general diseases or with inflammations.
Granular meningitisor general miliary tuberculosis also frequently follows in the wake of measles, connected in many cases with foci of caseous degeneration in the involved lymphatic glands or unabsorbed pneumonic exudation.
Andral, seeking to establish the law that in every acute inflammation there is an increase in the fibrin of the blood, remarks that in a case of cerebro-spinal meningitis it was very marked.
In meningitis the headache is much more severe, and does not disappear upon the occurrence of delirium.
One of the few descriptions of the symptoms is that of Ruedi,[54] in which he claims that the symptoms in sheep are those comparable to the symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis except that there is an absence of fever.
In meningitis and tetanus the muscular walls of the bowel and the abdominal muscles are in a state of tonic contraction.
Every physician knows how often meningitisor pericarditis or pleurisy may occur under these circumstances, especially in young persons; but, for myself, I cannot but express surprise at these figures.
Thus, chronic meningitis with persistent vomiting strongly simulates gastritis, and in the case of children it is liable to be mistaken for it.
Footnote 90: That ulcerative endocarditis frequently produces meningitis is illustrated by Osler's cases, 4 out of 7 of which were complicated with purulent meningitis: Transactions of International Med.
Should the pulse from being frequent become slow and irregular, and any paralytic symptoms ensue, meningitis may be suspected.
When sleeplessness in an acute meningitis is accompanied by severe pain, an excellent combination will be found in the following: [R.
Such wakefulness is a frequent precursor of acute meningitis in children and adults.
In the spring of 1888, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis appeared in Garfield County and the surrounding country.
Many were stricken and overpowered almost or quite as suddenly as the meningitis cases, while some exhibited meningeal tendencies that made the diagnosis doubtful at first.
I witnessed many harrowing scenes among my meningitis cases, and when the epidemic was past, I fervently thanked God and wished I might never again have to pass through a similar experience.
Following up the meningitis scourge, there came along soon afterwards a notable epidemic of influenza or la grippe.
Caseaux discovered tubercular peritonitis in a woman who had died after a diagnosis of hyperemesis gravidarum; Beau, tubercular meningitis in a like case.
Unfortunately in tubercular meningitis the clearly defined symptoms are absent in the beginning, and when the physician is called the condition is dangerous.
If meningitis develops, the patient has headache and later it becomes very severe.
Spinal meningitis is inflammation of the membrane of the spinal cord along with the accompanying back and extremity symptoms, while the head remains clear and free from complications.
The onset may not appear alarming and not be suspected until the discharge makes its appearance This is unfortunate; these complications are serious, as meningitis and abscess of the brain may result.
Still the patient's temperature was higher, the pain he was suffering more acute, and the symptoms which pointed tomeningitis more pronounced.
But he left the house holding a very strong belief thatmeningitis would supervene.
Downstairs he told Colonel Mandeville: "He may pull through if meningitis does not supervene.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis also showed itself in Santa Ana and at San Pedro Nonualco, but the malady did not assume the character of a real epidemic.
In the Capital, at the beginning of the year 1907, and at the time of the mobilization of the Army, several cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis presented themselves.
During the year 1908 a few cases of meningitis of a marked epidemic character were observed, but the efforts of the Council secured the mastery over the disease.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis has not occurred as an epidemic, but has appeared on the returns every month, with one or two cases.
It is also very helpful in case of meningitis and other inflammations.
Another important discovery that has emanated from the Rockefeller Institute is the Anti-Meningitis serum.
In such a case a fatal meningitis is a common result.
Or the fatal result may be secondary to an inflammation or meningitis which good treatment is often unable to prevent.
The intense headache, vertigo, delirium, and coma of meningitis, especially meningitis of the convexity without localizing symptoms, may be mistaken for severe prodromal symptoms of smallpox.
The condition somewhat suggests that of acute meningitis or tetanus, and especially suggests tetanus because it is often associated with masseter contracture (hysterical trismus).
We have, however, been able to find in the literature good instances of puzzling diagnosis in which such conditions are in evidence as acute meningitis of various forms, hydrophobia, tetanus, and the like.
The diagnosis was “brain tumor” or “syphilitic meningitisof the base.
About twelve months afterwards, in consequence of an imprudent exposure to cold, he was attacked with Bronchitis, and Meningitis supervened.
Case of Meningitis produced in consequence of the Child being suckled from its birth by a Woman who had at that time been delivered one Year.
Cases of Meningitis in Children who had been suckled an undue length of time, supervening upon other complaints.
It is a curious fact, which I believe has not been noticed by any other writer, that female children labouring under attacks of Meningitis are sometimes affected with leucorrhœal discharges.
Cranial asymmetry is common in idiots as well as among criminals; and while meningitis is a common cause of idiocy, such evidence as we possess shows that it is also common in criminals.
Meningitis is a characteristic and result of so-called spotted fever, and by many it is deemed identical with it.
If the spinal cord could be pulled by a dentist and put away in pounded ice every time it gets a hot-box, spinal meningitis would lose its stinger.
I said that if I should have another year ofmeningitis and thirteen more doctors, I would have to postpone my trip to Europe, where I had hoped to go and cultivate my voice.
One of them said very sensibly that meningitis was generally over-doctored.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis is another example of a disease which exists in sporadic and epidemic form.
In epidemics ofmeningitis the virulence of the organisms is increased, as is shown by the greater mortality.
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