The value of antimeningitis serum in the treatment of epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis / by A. Gardner Robb.

  • Robb, A. Gardner.
Date:
[1909?]
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    the value of antimeningitis serum IN THE TREATMENT OF EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS Bt a. GARDNER ROBB, M.B., D.P.H. Visiting Physician in Charge of the Belfast Fever Hospitals Of all the epidemic diseases met with in English- speaking countries, the most terrible in its manifestations and the most disastrous in its death-rate is cerebro- spinal meningitis. Outbreaks of this malady have been comparatively rare and comparatively short-lived. We have as yet no certain knowledge of the conditions under which it arises; but, if we are to judge by the history of its incidence in America during the past ten or twelve years, its occurrence in epidemic form is becoming more frequent, and the tendency to linger where it has once gained a footing is becoming more marked. Within the past two years extensive outbreaks have occurred in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. The larger cities have suffered most, Glasgow and Edinburgh and Leith in Scotland, and Belfast in Ireland. Commencing with great suddenness in these cities, cases rapidly appeared in widely separated districts having no apparent connection with each other. It is true, and fortunately so, that the total number of the inhabitants attacked in these places has been but a small proportion