Meningitis, sinus thrombosis and abscess of the brain : with appendices on lumbar puncture and its uses and diseases of the nasal accessory sinuses / by John Wyllie.

  • Wyllie, John, 1844-1916.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Meningitis, sinus thrombosis and abscess of the brain : with appendices on lumbar puncture and its uses and diseases of the nasal accessory sinuses / by John Wyllie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MENINGITIS, SINUS THROMBOSIS, AND ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN INTRODUCTORY NOTES CAUSAL DISEASES The author, having in mind the supremely important place which causal diseases hold in the matter of diagnosis, thinks it will not be out of place to devote the first page of this work to reminding the reader that when symptoms suggestive of endocranial disease arise during or shortly after another, ailment, the form of the primal disease points with considerable certainty to the nature of the endocranial disease present, although by doing so he may be charged later on with reiteration. If the patient be an adult, and suffers from old tuber- culous disease of the lungs, bowels, bones, joints, or glands, or, if a child, he suffers from caseation of the peribronchial, mesenteric, or cervical glands, and the two former in particular, tubercular meningitis is the variety of brain trouble most likely to be present; and non-tuberculous diseases of the lungs—such as bronchiectasis, putrid bronchitis, empyema, or badly resolving pneumonia, and malignant endocarditis—are of equal importance as indicators of brain abscess.