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(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract When Dr. Martin Randolph came to Danbury, a small city in the southwestern corner of Connecticut, in 1948, the…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract The first, documented 100 years of cerebrospinal meningitis, during which the clinical course and worldwide occurrence of diseases were…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract As Americans were becoming progressively more deeply involved in Vietnam, first as “advisors” but subsequently in the mid-1960s as…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract Bacterial infections, as we have seen, remained a cause of significant morbidity and mortality well into the first half…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract As human civilizations began to flourish, so did the infectious diseases that afflicted them. Over time, an understanding of…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract “Flexner’s serum” had a significant and dramatic impact on the uniformly poor prognosis associated with meningococcal meningitis in the…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract The convergence of thought engendered by Pasteur’s confirmation of the germ theory of disease, along with technological advances in…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract Each year millions of Muslims make their way to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and site of…

(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA   Abstract When the first warm breezes of April blow in from Buzzard’s Bay, the South End of New Bedford, near…