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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    — IO drocephalus,* hydrocephalus aigue,\ and meningitis of infants.}; Basilar meningitis, they affirmed, was caused by the anatomical lesion of tubercular granules. To Willis § belongs the honor of being the first to correctly define the inflammation of the cerebral men- inges, accompanied by exudation of fluid into the ventricles. ' Pons, Oesterlen, and Baillarger || were among the first to recognize internal pachymeningitis, but Vir- chow** was the first to fully understand and make public the true nature of the disease. Although the ancients were dimly cognizant of the existence of the tubercular form of meningitis, no- marked distinction between it and the ordinary variety was made until the year 1768, when the brilliant and original brochure by Robert Whyttf f was published after his death by his son; but he had no conception of the pathology of this disease. In 1815 Golis discovered that dropsy of the ven- tricles was not a primary disease, but was caused by- inflammation of the meninges or blood-vessels. * Whytt. f Fothergill. X Coindet. § De Morbis Convulsivis, chap, v, Amastelod, 1862. I Rosenthal: Diseases of the Nervous System, p. 9. **Wuerz. Verh., Bd. vii, 1857. ff Observations on the Most Frequent Form of the Hy drocephalus Internus, Edinburgh, 1768, p. 725.