Abstract
Scant attention has been paid in America to a symptom-complex which has been widely discussed in Europe in recent years. Especially from France, Germany and Scandinavia have come reports of cases designated by various authors as acute benign idiopathic serous meningitis,1acute aseptic meningitis,2benign aseptic purulent meningitis,3and epidemic meningitis serosa.4Only recently have reports emanated from this country.5 In the syndrome to be discussed there is a prodromal period of one or two weeks, as a rule, during which the patient may have the symptoms of an infection of the upper respiratory tract. Then there is a sudden onset of headache, general malaise, vomiting, mild fever, a varying degree of rigidity of the neck and a mild Kernig sign. Signs in the pyramidal tract are unusual (Kecht6). Blurring of the disks is fairly common in adults. Rarely does involvement of the cranial
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