INFLUENZAL MENINGITIS: REPORT OF TWO CASES WITH RECOVERY; ONE CASE COMPLICATED BY PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA

In 1933 two cases of influenzal meningitis were presented by one of us (E. L. N.) before the Philadelphia Pediatric Society. 1 One resulted in complete cure; the other showed at autopsy a brain almost entirely devoid of exudate. We believed that death occurred in the second case either because of edema of the brain from serum shock or from pressure changes following cisternal drainage. Both these patients were treated with serum, the first with serum of Dr. Dorothy Wilkes Weiss, 2 obtained from Parke Davis & Co., the second largely with serum obtained from Dr. Margaret Pittman 3 of the Rockefeller Institute. Two further cases of influenzal meningitis are here presented. We believe that they will be of interest because they were consecutive cases with prompt recovery; further, they presented features of interest, particularly the boy aged 5 years, who had an attack of paroxysmal tachycardia. REPORT OF CASES