Smith Honor Mildred Vivan (1 results)

Modern Practice in Tuberculosis. - London, Butterworth & Co. (Publisher) Ltd., 1952, 8°, pp.353-377, Figs.115-130, orig. wrappers. Offprint! Repinted from "Modern Practice in Tuberculosis" Added "Treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by meningitis. An illustrative case. By Honor V. Smith, Harley Stevens & Laurie, G.C." (The Lancet, Sept. 8, 1951) "Invasion of the central nervous system by Mycobacterium tuberculosis may result in tuberculous meningitis or in the large tuberculoma, the "scrofulous tumour" of the older authors (Bramwell, 1888). Although each condition has its own clinical syndrome, treatment and prognosis, the two are of necessity closely inter-related, and though either may occur alone each may complicate the other." Cairns & Smit Honor Mildred Vivian Smith (1908-1995) was an English neurologist who specialised in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. She began working for Hugh Cairns's neurosurgery unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1943, where she started her lifelong body of research on meningitis. Here, she pioneered the use of intrathecal penicillin to treat pneumococcal meningitis. …