Cerebral meningitis : its history, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment / by Martin W. Barr.

  • Barr, Martin W., 1860-1938.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Cerebral meningitis : its history, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment / by Martin W. Barr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    symptoms and treatment very minutely. Although they are analogous in the main, each presents some marked difference or distinctive peculiarity. I touch but superficially on pachymeningitis and the treatment of the tubercular variety. The former because it comes more properly within the sphere of the surgeon; the latter because the discoveries made by Koch, have opened a new era in the treatment of this disease. I should like to call especial attention to the fact that, with a single exception (Case 2), the fifty-one patients from whom I made my clinical notes and collected my data were mentally defective, and for this reason peculiarly liable to cerebral trouble. I have adopted the classification of Dr. Kerlin in describing the intellectual condition of my patients: ( (a) Apathetic. 1. Idiocy. \ ( (b) Excitable. 2. Idio-imbecility. \ (a) High grade. 3. Imbecility. Mb) Middle grade. 1 (c) Low grade. 4. Moral imbecile. DEFINITION AND REMARKS. Cerebral meningitis (fJLrjvyi;, a membrane, and ins, inflammation]) is the general term applied to in- flammation of the internal and external enveloping