The Febrile Convulsion in Shigellosis

Abstract

A NUMBER of clinical analyses of the febrile convulsion are available in the literature,¹ but with few exceptions the analytical procedure has been approached from the standpoint of the convulsion as the symptom that brings the patient to the clinic, thus permitting him to be included in the study series. In an effort to bring the problem into sharper focus, we have approached the subject from a different point of view — namely, the study of a series of patients suffering from a disease that in our experience was associated with a high prevalence of Central-nervous-system symptoms. To this purpose, . . .