SPONDYLITIS FOLLOWING CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS

Abstract

This paper is based on a study of thirty-five cases in which there was the complaint of persistent back symptoms dating from attacks of acute meningitis. Thirty-three of these patients were ex-service men whose trouble began during the World War, and who came under my observation during the last five years while I was acting as consultant to our local unit of the Veterans' Bureau. The other two were seen while I was in civil practice, one a boy, aged 12, who had had meningitis five years before, and the other a man of 32, the onset of whose trouble dated back fifteen years; both had had pain and stiffness in the lumbar spine ever since. These two patients were seen by courtesy of Drs. Jack Witherspoon and W. C. Dixon. In a paper on "Low Back Pain" read before the Southern Medical Association in November, 1922, I¹referred