SECONDARY SYPHILITIC MENINGITIS

1912/10/05 by ARTHUR W. M. ELLIS, Arthur Ellis
Medicine · #Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment

paper · doi:10.1001/jama.1912.04270100033011

Abstract

The subject of syphilitic meningitis, occurring early in the secondary period of the disease, is one which has attracted the attention of occasional observers since 1650, when Guarinoni¹first described the condition. The meningitis usually shows itself first as a disturbance of sight or hearing and may go on to the typical picture of an acute or subacute diffuse meningitis. In Germany, Rumpf,²Knorre,³Lang⁴and Nonne,⁵in France, Gros and Lancereaux,⁶Ravaut,⁷Fournier,⁸Boidin and Weil,⁹and in England, Mott¹⁰and Williamson¹¹have especially called attention to the condition. The advent of salvarsan has, however, given the question a prominence which it never possessed before and has led to a vigorous discussion of the real frequency of its occurrence and of the possibility of salvarsan as a predisposing factor. In November, 1910, Finger¹²in Vienna, in his

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