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...typical case (a child under two), Dr. Alexander estimates the severity of the infection by measuring the sugar and chloride in the patient's spinal fluid. If the level is low, the infection is severe. Treatment begins with an injection of sulfadiazine and a continuous slow drip of salt solution into a vein. After the drip has gone on for about four hours, a measured amount of the special rabbit serum is put into the reservoir of weak salt solution. The amount used depends on the amount of infection. All the serum is given in two hours...
...picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...spasm, the stretched muscles and other muscles all over the body are also in spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve impulses that prevent involuntary contraction; 3) the paralysis, which may be permanent, results when contraction impulses fail to get through...
...Naval Hospital in San Diego. Of 50 men ingitis patients treated with sulfa drugs (TIME, Nov. 30), 48 recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause of death in the U.S. Army, killed 1,737 soldiers...
...given a spinal shot. He saw the doctor's arm moving, his own leg lifted, the blood vessels tied off. Four times Lawson looked at the silver saw in White's hand. He could hear the teeth cutting through thicker and thinner parts...