Examination later in the day showed a fine macular eruption, moderate rigidity of the neck, positive Kernig and Brudzinski signs and sluggish reflexes. By this time the patient was semicomatose.

A previously healthy 9-year-old Latina girl presented in the last week of December 2001 to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles emergency room with a 4-day history of severe headache and fever of ...

DR. WALDEMAR KERNIG, an eminent Russian physician, who died in 1917, was born on June 16, 1840, at Dorpat, where he received his medical education. He qualified in 1864 with a thesis on the ...