| Description Of Item | Press cutting of page 457 from the Medical Circular, originally published 27 December 1865. Relates to meningitis, from the section of Parisian medical news. It reports the opinion of Professor [Henri Louis?] Roger, a French physician, concerning ‘uncomplicated cerebral meningitis’ and ‘tubercular meningitis.’ He argued that, contrary to current beliefs, the former form is as serious and deadly as the latter. The article also points to the links between meningitis and other pathologies. The cutting details that meningitis could be a complication of internal ear inflammations (such as otitis, as seen in the case of a young girl), but also of ‘superficial inflammations of the outer ear’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |