A Case of Fatal Anaphylaxis Following the Intravenous Injection of Antimeningococcic Serum

The recent article of Lamson1impressed me with the fact that the cases of so-called anaphylactic deaths are too few as gathered in the literature, and that physicians do not take the time and trouble to report such cases. The case recorded here ended fatally after the intravenous use of antimeningococcic serum. REPORT OF CASE W., aged 25, a soldier, was admitted to the meningitis ward of the base hospital, April 25, 1918, with a diagnosis that advised observation for cerebrospinal meningitis. The patient was taken ill, April 23, with occipital headaches, which were getting worse during the day; the night of the 24th, he vomited. He did not sleep on account of headache, and the next morning, he vomited three times. The patient was well developed, was apparently in pain, complained bitterly of headache, and tossed restlessly in bed. There was no evidence of paralysis. The pupils reacted