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infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord (the meninges)
- Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man—for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders—was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy marked "own" was bound in calf.Book 2 — Old and Young (33% in)
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