Recurrent Pneumococcal Meningitis

ALTHOUGH favorable results are obtained with penicillin in the therapy of pneumococcal meningitis this infection remains a serious disease. The mortality rate in patients forty years of age and over approximates 50 per cent. Whereas fatal cases are considerably less frequent in children, residual damage to the central nervous system is common and severe.The purpose of this report is to record a series of observations carried out over a period of several years on a patient who had had 11 different attacks of pneumococcal meningitis due to at least 5 different types of Diplococcus pneumoniae. Unusual features about . . .