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REPORT OF A CASE WITH RECOVERY DUE TO SERUM THERAPY

CLARENCE K. WEIL, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;57(3):514-520.

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Until recent years, recovery from pneumococcic meningitis was such a rare and exceptional event that the disease was generally regarded as fatal. Kolmer,¹ Schottmüller² and Jochman³ reported a mortality of 100 per cent, while Lubarsch⁴ and Frankel⁵ estimated the mortality as 99 per cent and 98 per cent, respectively. The first report of recovery was made by Jemma⁶ in 1896. By 1911, only seven cases with recovery had been reported.⁷ In 1923, Hallé⁸ reported one recovery following the use of antipneumococcus serum plus fixation abscess, and in the same year Netter and Césari⁹ reported a recovery due to the same treatment. In their report, for the first time, the type of pneumococcus was given. In 1928, Harkavy¹⁰ and Globus and Kasanin¹¹ reported single cases and made a partial survey of the literature, describing seven cases in addition to their own.¹² One of the patients recovered spontaneously; . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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MONTGOMERY, ALA.

From St. Margaret's Hospital.

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