Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1907 — Meningitis Serum a Success. [ARTICLE]

Meningitis Serum a Success.

A report made to the New York Academy of Medicine, and which is attracting much interest among physicians, indicates that a serum, which was'discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Pathological Institute, for the treatment of meningitis, or “spotted fever,” the unprecedented record of cures in 72.3 per cent of the total number of cases treated. An interesting feature was the sudden termination disease, generally within forty-eight hours after the injection of the serum. The casee reported were treated in various parts of the country.