Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis
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Title
Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis
Subject
Finland, Maxwell
Charts (graphic documents)
Description
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.
Abstract
Finlandogram concerning Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis
Creator
Finland, Maxwell
Date Created
1940s, circa
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Is Part Of
Maxwell Finland papers, 1916-2003. H MS c153. Box 29, folder 13.
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Format
image
Extent
1 chart
Language
English
Type
still image
Provenance
From the Harvard Medical Library Collection
Files
Citation
Finland, Maxwell, “Pneumococcus Type IV meningitis,” OnView: Digital Collections & Exhibits, accessed June 3, 2023, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12668.
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