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"So she bit his leg as hard as ever she could and he let go."... "Had four of his ribs amputated."... "Caught meningitis and was carried off in a week." "Had to have a large piece of silver tube let into his throat, and if he wants to talk he puts his finger on it. It makes him so interesting, I think. You feel he's sincere somehow. A most charming man in every way."
Before we had been at sea a week, the S.B. managed to get a sunstroke. He grew alarmingly ill, and the ship's doctor told me that he had developed tubercular meningitis, and that his recovery was impossible. I gave the S.B. a hint as to the gravity of his case, but the boy's pluck was indomitable. "I am going to sell that doctor," he said, "for I don't mean to die now.
'We have now the concussion, with reasonable prospect of meningitis; and there may come on erysipelas from the scalp wounds, and high fever, with all its dangers; next there may be a low typhoid state, with high nervous excitement; and through all these the passing risks of the wrong food or drink, the imprudent revelations, or the mistaken stimulants.
Packer said that death was due to cerebral meningitis, the result of a blow on the head. "The coroner: 'I suppose you can't tell which blow caused the trouble' 'No, sir, I am afraid not. "The jury returned a verdict of accidental death." Who has not seen the London grottos he who knows them not, knows nothing of the London poor.
But Susy became worse, and a few days later her malady was pronounced meningitis. This was the 15th of August, the day that her mother and Clara sailed from England. She was delirious and burning with fever, but at last sank into unconsciousness. She died three days later, and on the night that Mrs. Clemens and Clara arrived was taken to Elmira for burial.
Meningitis, pneumonia, diphtheria, typhoid fever and rarely rheumatism may all cause this severe form of endocarditis. Ulcerative endocarditis was first described by Kirkes in 1851, was later shown to be a distinctive type of endocarditis by Charcot and Virchow, and finally was thoroughly described by Osler in 1885.
Demonstrate. "'What is this paraphernalia you speak of, Doc? says the Mayor. 'You ain't a Socialist, are you? "'I am speaking, says I, 'of the great doctrine of psychic financiering of the enlightened school of long-distance, sub-conscientious treatment of fallacies and meningitis of that wonderful in-door sport known as personal magnetism. "'Can you work it, doc? asks the Mayor.
"Lastly, it aggravates and enhances all acute diseases, typhus, pneumonia, erysipelas. "The sins of the parents against the laws of health visit their offspring. If the children survive the first months of their lives they are threatened with imbecility or epilepsy, or death carries them away a little later by such diseases as meningitis or consumption.
I went down the road wondering whether cerebral meningitis germs preferred apples or beer, or perhaps they liked both; awful thought! We went back to our original selection and decided to somehow or other squeeze into the farm which we thought too small. Many hours later we got the transport and the machine-gun section fixed up. We spent two nights there. On the second day I went up into Bailleul.
He spoke of a little ten-year-old girl, living in one of these little dark rooms, pushed down on the street by a playmate, an accident that would have been thought nothing of in a healthy child, but in this little one it produced tubercular meningitis and after two days of agony the child died.
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