Show Germ of Convulsions Gets in Through Nose I r I vi rC yb pw L 1 w I ast n tb y y t. t t 01 iZI Ai ast r t rv Cia N Q r. r Y 1 I I I a af I IJohn f. f a a r I A 1 1 I John Robinson Serrin III 7 months old of Marion Ind I By GERTRUDE MYERS MYERS There i is nothing which winch strikes es terror terror terror ter ter- to a mothers mother's heart as as quickly as seeing her child in th the throes of a con con- Convulsions may be produced by various causes The underlying factor factor factor fac fac- tor in all cases is irritation of the brain cells This Thi irritation may be I i produced produce by disease of the brain itself 1 I or nr of its coverings An Inflammation I of the coverings of the brain is commonly com corn manly known as meningitis which may maybe be due to the germ known as the dip- dip I of meningitis This form of meningitis occurs in epidemics and IsI is 1 I very contagious j The germ gets into the body through the membranes of the nose or upper I part of the throat and extends directly I to the brain covering causing a severe inflammation of these membranes with the formation of fluid and pus I The thickened coverings of the brain brainand brainand brainand and the increase of the amount of fluid just beneath it causes pressure on the I brain cells producing the symptoms of ot meningitis chief among which is conI con con- I Other Othel forms of ot meningitis which produce convulsions In the same manner manner manner man man- ner are aie tubercular meningitis and meningitis meningitis meningitis men men- produced b by the extension upward upward upward up up- ward of ot ordinary pus germs from the thelIo lIo note nose e or infected ears to the brain cov cov- s. ering-s. Other conditions which may likewise likewise likewise like like- wise produce convulsions are tumor tumor- ous growths in the skull bones or brain tissue itself causing pressure on the near-by near brain cells Convulsions are also caused by an irritation of certain poisonous substances substances substances sub sub- stances which reach it through the blood stream These substances ar are aro most often otten formed in other parts of the body more especially in the gastrointestinal gastrointestinal gastro gastro- intestinal tract If a child has a deranged stomach and intestines or if certain foods are placed In these thes organs and do not properly digest est they are apt to undergo a process of putrefaction The substances substancE'S which are produced by this putrefactive change are arc taken up by the blood bloo and carried to other parts parta of the bod body These substances substancE's on reaching the brain cells are often sufficiently Irritating to cause a con con- Other important causes of convulsions convulsions convulsions are epilepsy and anti Inflammation of the tho kidneys with retention of the urine |