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Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis)

The invasion of New York by cerebro-spinal fever in the winter and spring of 1904-5, when some 4,000 cases occurred,1 and the more recent appearance of the disease in Glasgow (March, 1906), in Belfast, and some other districts, invite attention to its causation and prophylaxis. It is generally recognised that a cerebro-spinal meningitis may be set up by various causes, such as disease of the mi...

Playing games with the brain: The possible link between anesthesia and Alzheimer’s disease revisited Jugando con el cerebro: revisión del posible vínculo entre la anestesia y el Alzheimer

The brain is the most complex and remarkable organ in the human body: through infinite neuronal synapses and networks, neurotransmitters and neural impulses, the brain establishes inand out-pathways receiving and sending all kind of information to command and integrating the other organs physiology. This simplistic view of the brain structure and role does not eliminate a question that we must ...

The Cerebro-Spinal Fluid

vof 3 other conditions will prove very useful for [l^ence. Therapeutic uses of lumbar puncture ^Renography of the ventriculo-subarachnoid space and t?L ?10chemiciil methods have also been dealt with, D increasing the practical utility of the volume, cmlmte facts have been presented in such a way that , can match with considerable accuracy the findings ,LPuractlcally any case. There is an excell...

Cerebro-costo-mandibular Syndrome

McNicholl, B., Egan-Mitchell, B., Murray, J. P., Doyle, J. F., Kennedy, J. D. and Crome, L. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 421. Cerebrocosto-mandibular syndrome: a new familial developmental disorder. Three sibs with a hitherto unreported syndrome are described, the main features being mental handicap, palatal defects, micrognathia, and severe costovertebral defects, involving se...

Cerebro-Spinal Fever