抗菌素的问世已将细菌性脑膜炎的治疗由毫无希望推进到乐观的时代。Alexander氏在论述抗菌素的进展时曾乐观地指出:“1945年发生的这件大事使我们几乎能将所有最常见的化脓性脑膜炎全部治愈”。在短时期的乐观后,目前我们发现虽然有了抗菌素疗法,仍有一些病人不免死亡,还有相当部份病人遭受丧失劳动力的痛苦。因此,细菌性脑膜炎虽然在治疗上有了重要的进展,但仍为小儿时期患病和造成临床上病情急剧进入危险状态的主要原 The advent of antibiotics has brought the treatment of bacterial meningitis from hopeless to optimistic times. In his discussion of the progress of antibiotics, Alexander had optimistically pointed out: “This major event in 1945 enabled us to cure almost all of the most common purulent meningitis.” After a short period of optimism, we now find that although some antibiotics have been used, some patients still have deaths and a considerable part of them suffer from labor losses. Therefore, although bacterial meningitis has made significant progress in the treatment, it still remains the main source of the illness in infancy and the rapid onset of clinical dangerous conditions