Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis

what he termed the epidemic of " malignant purpuric fever in Ireland, as it occurred among the troops" in 1866-67. In March, 1888, Dr. Bolton Corney contributed a paper on "Epidemic Cerebrospinal Fever in the Fiji Islands (5) in 1885." Since 1888 no papers on this disease have been read before the Society ; but in the meantime considerable additions have been made to the common fund of knowledge concerning epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. It appears to me, therefore, that the present is an appropriate time for taking stock, as it were, of the facts that have been gathered during the last ten years concerning this disease, which has long been regarded as a mysterious malady. From facts that have come under my own notice, I am led to think that the characteristic features of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis are but little familiar to many English medical practitioners. Some who have studied the subject say that in England, as elsewhere, the malady is frequently overlooked, and that deaths from this cause