A Follow-up Study of Pertussis in Infancy

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Abstract
INJURY to the central nervous system has long been known to be one of the risks of the contagious diseases of childhood, and it has long been suspected that the risk of such accidents was more severe in whooping cough than in the other common diseases, and that children under two years of age have been more frequently affected by the encephalitic complications of whooping cough. It also seems probable that the disease in infancy may, as shown for lead poisoning without convulsions,1 interfere with subsequent maturation processes in the brain. Finally, since it seems increasingly clear that the disease . . .

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