Abstract
The antimeningitis serum has been employed with constantly increasing frequency since 1906-1907, and those physicians who have come to have the widest experience in its use are unanimous in the opinion of its high therapeutic value. Elaborate reports1have now been published from America, France, Germany, and still other countries, and they agree in indicating that the reduction in mortality caused by epidemic meningitis and brought about by the serum is from two-thirds to three-fourths of the average percentages occurring in the same periods and places among the patients not subjected to the specific treatment. There is, at present, no other effective means of treatment of the disease known. It becomes, therefore, a matter of great importance to discover and then to ascertain the reasons for any harmful effects arising in the course of the serum treatment and attributable to the treatment itself. That an immune horse-serum can be
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