The Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome

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Abstract
The symptom complex known as the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome was first described by Voelcker1 in 1894. Early in 1944, Haas2 found 144 cases reported in the literature, to which he added 3 of his own. Rucks and Hobson3 stated that up to the beginning of 1942 there were 101 recorded cases, 26 of which had been reported in the preceding three years. Assuming that these workers did not overlook any cases up to the time of their respective communications, it appears that approximately 75 cases of the syndrome were reported between 1894 and 1939 and 75 in the five years from . . .