Cerebro-Spinal Fever

This book studies the symptoms and treatment of meningitis, following an outbreak in the British Army in 1915.

Michael Foster (Author), J. F. Gaskell (Author)

9781107415799, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

236 pages
27.9 x 21 x 1.3 cm, 0.54 kg

In 1915, an outbreak of meningitis affected the Eastern Command in the British Army. Foster and Gaskell, both Captains in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Army, were on hand to witness the effect of the disease, and the following year they published this study of the disease's symptoms and treatment as they observed it. The text is accompanied by plates illustrating meningitis' effects on the skin and brain. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of epidemiology and the treatment of meningitis.

1. Historical
2. Symptoms
3. Diagnosis
4. Acute forms
5. Sub acute and chronic cases
6. Course and prognosis
7. Treatment
8. Pathology
9. Changes in the cerebro-spinal fluid and the cultivation of the meningococcus from it, from the blood and from the urine
10. Epidemiology
11. The bacteriology of the meningococcus and other gram-negative diplococci
Plates
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography and index of authors
General index.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX]