BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Number of 

 Treatments. 



Clinical 

 Evidence. 



even though the diplococci disappear from the 

 spinal fluid and the sjmiptoms clear up. The 

 treatment is kept up longer than four days if 

 the diplococci have not entirely disappeared. 

 The injections are given slowly, not more than 

 three (3) cubic centimeters in thirty seconds. 

 General anaesthesia is prescribed during the 

 treatment. Shock following the treatment is 

 overcome by the use of strychnia and camphor, 

 administered hypodermically. Dose, of course, 

 to be prescribed by the physician in charge. 



Clinical reports of cases treated with anti- 

 meningitis serum during epidemics cover the 

 years 1904- 1909. The results obtained in the 

 United States are not so marked as those ob- 

 tained abroad. The epidemic in the United 

 States had already passed the crisis when serum 

 treatment was introduced. In some parts of 

 Europe it was still raging. In Germany, as in 

 this country, the epidemic was about over. In 

 France, however, the serum was available at 

 the outbreak of the disease and the mortality 

 was less than twenty-five (25) per cent. The 

 Rockefeller Institute, New York, sent sup- 

 plies to Professors Calmette, Netter and Roux. 



Good results from the serum treatment are 

 reported from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- 

 more, Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C, 

 and many other places in the United States and 



Canada. 



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