MENINGITIS GERM IS EXPLAINED

Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith, assistant professor of Neuropathology at the Medical School, told members of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases at its annual meeting in New York during the vacation that he had confirmed the belief that the meningitis germ, rather than the white cells in the spinal fluid, consumed sugar present in the fluid. He said that when meningitis is present, there follows a decrease in the sugar content, and when the patient is recovering there is a corresponding, increase.

He noted further that the symptoms of poliomyelitis and meningitis were much the same, but that a normal sugar content in infantile paralysis and a deficiency in sugar in meningitis led to the finding that only the germ of the latter disease consumed the sugar.