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...reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after the accident, the body tries to restore the balance between blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Withdrawal of fluid "might possibly interfere with this...
...require three months. Fever also benefits atrophic arthritis (but not hypertrophic, where the joints enlarge). Acute neuritic pains of rheumatism often cease after fever treatment. Asthma, when not due to allergy, improves under fever. So do many cases of rheumatic fever. Newest field for fever experiment is treatment of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
Tests indicate that every other child is liable to an attack by cerebro-spinal meningitis. Currently only 174 cases are known to exist in the U. S. Last year at this time there were only 49 cases. But four years ago an epidemic flecked the nation with children dying stiff as boards. In extreme cases the disease bent the necks of victims so tensely that the backs of their heads lay between their shoulder blades...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
Last week Parke, Davis sent up a glad shout from Detroit that not only is Dr. Ferry's meningitis antitoxin a definite means of telling whether or not a child is susceptible to cerebro-spinal meningitis, but that in all probability three stiff doses will protect the child against the disease. Dr. Ferry, with the help of Dr. Arthur Harvey Steele and Dr. Robert Henry Haskell, proved his thesis on the students of the Wayne County Training School at Northville, Mich...