Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis

Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis

Finland, Maxwell

Charts (graphic documents)

Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis with bactericidal complicating otits media. Treatment with sulfanilamide by mouth, intravenous specific antipneumococcic rabbit serum, and similar serum mixed with fresh non-immune sera intraspinally. Untoward reactions following intravenous injections. Block due to thick exudate and edema. Failure to grow pneumococci from lumbar and cisternal fluid after treatment. Death after thirty-two hours. Autopsy: bilateral acute otitus media; acute purulent meningitis; mild pulmonary congestion. Type IV pneumococci were cultured from the cortex of the brain, but no organisms were grown from the cultures of the lumbar, cisternal and ventricular fluids.

Finlandogram concerning Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis

Finland, Maxwell

1940s, circa

The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all materials in this collection. For use information, consult Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu

Access to the original work depicted requires advance notice. Contact Public Services at chm@hms.harvard.edu for additional information

Maxwell Finland papers, 1916-2003. H MS c153. Box 29, folder 13.

image

1 chart

English

still image

From the Harvard Medical Library Collection