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...ready to go ahead with an operation on the Trammell infant. After a 54-hr. study of the case Dr. Dandy began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby came out of the ether all right, and is taking her feeding nicely. The operation may be termed successful...
...Toxic products from disorder of intestinal digestion or other self-made poisons. 2) Spasms of arteries. 3) Trouble in the eyes, nose or sexual organs. 4) Increased pressure in the cerebro-spinal fluids. 5) Disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system...
...cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
Merrill Stanton Gaunt, And., of Methuen, a member of the University Medical Unit engaged in Red Cross work in France, died of cerebro spinal meningitis in a hospital at Bar-le-Due early this week, according to a cablegram received by his family. Mr. Gaunt was for two years a student in the Andover Theological Seminary, but last February volunteered with the second University Unit. A cablegram was received on Saturday stating that he was seriously ill, and the announcement of his death came several days later...
...Sharp, Senior, respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...