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In this way one may catch pneumonia, consumption, influenza, diphtheria, whooping cough, tonsilitis, spinal meningitis, measles, and certain other diseases. Dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea, and intestinal worms may be caught in this manner, Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and bubonic plague may be caught in this way.
"I never heard such an infamous name! Nobody can ever call a person that a person they love. I wouldn't call an enemy by such a name. It sounds like an epithet." After a moment, she added with a kind of consternation, "Why, it would be my name! Letters would come with it on." "Yes Mrs. Spinal Meningitis Snodgrass." "Don't repeat it don't; I can't bear it. Was the father a lunatic?"
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, the doctor from Winnipeg called it, and the memory of that time when men and women would not sleep till her crisis was past was still fresh on the tongues of all.
"Look out you don' broke your back," warned the other. "Dis Chilkoot she's bad bizness. She's keel a lot of dese sof' fellers. Dey get seeck in de back. You hear 'bout it?" "Spinal meningitis. It's partly from exposure." "Dat's him! Don' never carry too moch; don' be in soch hurry." Phillips laughed at this caution. "Why, we have to hurry," said he.
Each one of them was thrilled with such thrills as become rare when the forties have passed, thrilled even before they heard his words: "It is not meningitis. Your daughter can get well." In the conference which followed, Dr. Harkins felt that his confidence had been well placed.
In most cases the joint affection makes its appearance a few days after the commencement of a pneumonia, but in a number of instances, especially among children, the lung is not specially involved, and the condition is an indication of a generalised pneumococcal infection, which may manifest itself by endocarditis, empyema, meningitis, or peritonitis, and frequently has a fatal termination.
Captain Ellis began an investigation into the grouping of the various strains of "meningococci" the organism causing cerebro-spinal meningitis, with the ultimate object of obtaining a more efficient anti-serum for the treatment of this disease.
Sally rose, moved softly and solemnly a step or two, and stood before Tracy his head came slowly up, his meek eyes met her intense ones then she finished with deep impressiveness " named Spinal Meningitis Snodgrass!" Tracy merely exhibited signs of increased fatigue. The girl was outraged by this iron indifference and callousness, and cried out "What are you made of?" "I? Why?"
This may frequently avert inflammation of the brain, meningitis, imbecility, insanity or infantile paralysis. "If the trend of the suppressed impurities and poisons be downward, it often results in the hypertrophy and degeneration of the lymphatic glands of the neck. In such cases the suppressive treatment, by drugs or knife, is again applied instead of eliminative and curative measures.
Before leaving the bivouac, where she had committed her crime, she had picked it out of the glowing embers, and brought it into the cradle, and that is why her little fingers were burned. Since the beginning of the meningitis the major had never been able to explain the cause of these burns." Robert was silent for an instant, then murmured: "Poor little one! I feel remorseful.
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