TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALITIS

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The increasing number of cases of trauma of the head presents a problem of major importance to all branches of the medical profession. From automobile accidents alone there were 31,000 deaths in 1931 in the United States, and the total number of accidents for the year extended into the millions. Injuries of the head are frequent among such accidents. There has been a marked therapeutic advance in the management of the severer types of acute injuries of the head in the past decade, owing to the increasing general knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of cerebral edema and hemorrhage. Also, the surgical indications are fairly well agreed on by all authorities. The milder degrees of cerebral trauma, which at the time of the accident are usually called cerebral concussion, representing types of injury to the brain without acutely increased intracranial pressure, with or without fracture of the skull, have not

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