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MUIR CLAPPER, M.D.; GORDON B. MYERS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(1):18-30.

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Before 1935 only 11 cases of Weil's disease had been reported from the United States.¹ Since that time additional cases have been reported with increasing rapidity.² Several excellent summaries³ of the clinical manifestations of the disease have also appeared in the American and foreign literature. Nevertheless it is still not widely appreciated in America that this malady may occur in a meningitic form and that jaundice is not a necessary concomitant.

HISTORY AND INCIDENCE OF MENINGITIS IN WEIL'S DISEASE

What would appear to be the first recorded case of meningitis in Weil's disease was reported by Laubry and Parvu,⁴ of Paris, France, in October 1910. These authors described 3 atypical cases of lymphocytic meningitis; 1 of the patients had jaundice and a clinical course which simulated that of Weil's disease. One week later Gullain and Richet⁵ described, and illustrated with 4 case reports, a distinct . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Departments of Internal Medicine of Wayne University College of Medicine and City of Detroit Receiving Hospital.

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