Abstract
Lumbar Puncture has, up to the present time,
proved of much more value as a diagnostic aid
than as a therapeutic agent. It is in the
diagnosis of meningitis, some organic diseases of the
brain and spinal cord, such as tabes dorsalis and
general paralysis of the insane, and of fractures of
the base of the skull, that we get most help from the
information furnished by lumbar puncture.
