TY  - JOUR
T1  - SErous meningitis following injection of antitetanic serum
AU  - Berghausen O
Y1  - 1919/12/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.26120500002011b
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1841
EP  - 1842
VL  - 73
IS  - 24
N2  - A boy, aged 3½ years, who had been in the best of health, stepped on a nail two weeks before I saw him, Sept. 26, 1919. The wound was indifferently treated by one physician so that Dr. George Sikes of Pleasant Ridge was consulted two days later. The wound was then opened, cleansed and properly cauterized. The little boy was given 2,000 units of antitetanic serum; the wound healed perfectly. A week after the serum was given, a typical serum rash developed but soon subsided. Four days later the child was playing in the yard as usual, when he began to drag the injured leg. That afternoon he was taken sick rather suddenly, and fever developed, but there was no nausea or vomiting. The mother noticed that the child could not move the injured (right) leg or the left arm. He seemed to hold his head toward the right side.
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.26120500002011b
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.26120500002011b
ER  -