Abstract
Such remarkable progress has been made in preventive medicine since the tragic days of Osler 1 at the opening of Johns Hopkins Hospital, that we are inclined to forget that such a disease as typhoid still exists. Mosher, 2 in a recent discussion on the differential diagnosis of lateral sinus thrombosis, sharply condemned the worn out confusion with typhoid fever. Having at the time just gone through the trying ordeal of differentiating typhoid fever from a septic thrombosis of the sigmoid sinus, I was deeply impressed with his remarks. In the management of this case it required considerable courage to withstand the onslaughts of the pediatricians, who flatly refused to accept any responsibility unless the mastoid infection was properly cared for. The history and rather unusual course is as follows: REPORT OF CASE F. Y., a boy, aged 10 years, was readmitted to Mercy Hospital, Oct. 5, 1925,
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