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The Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in Meningitis

1944; Oxford University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 220 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/pgmj.20.220.69

1469-0756

W. E. Carnegie Dickson,

Bacterial Infections and Vaccines

Of recent years, many shorter and longer descriptions of the cerebro-spinal fluid have appeared in journals and textbooks, and.it is difficult to avoid repetition of already well-known facts or to say anything particularly new about it.Readers specially interested in the subject should refer to the Presidential Address given to the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine by the late Professor Halliburton' in I916, as in it are foreshadowed most of the essential facts which have since been repeated by subsequent writers.In his Address, Halli- burton pointed out that normal cerebro-spinal fluid is "the perfect physiological medium" for the protection, of the tissues of the central nervous system-more especially its nerve-cell elements-and, as he expresses it from the physiologist's point-of-view, it is the ideal "Ringer-