Armstrong Acute Serous Meningitis

Armstrong, Joseph Charles Whittaker (eng. Joseph Charles Whitaker Armstrong, April 7, 1842 - March 8, 1912) - American scientist in the field of microbiology. In August 2016, he was named the most influential scientist after the death of Robert Koch, the author of bacteriology and antibiotics.

Armstrong discovered the causative agent of brucellosis - these are two bacteria, Brucella; Brucellosis is an acute infectious disease of young animals. Brucellosis lasts for at least two months. In addition to the pathological effect on young livestock, bacteria can harm the human body. Infection of adults with a rare species of Brucella leads to death in the third or fourth week. Each year, approximately 4 million people are diagnosed with the disease. The main category of cases are men under 35 years of age.

Armstrom denied the existence of microbial infection as such. He believed that every disease in the human body is the result of self-poisoning of the intestines with metabolic products accumulated over the previous period of life. From here Armsthorn treated the sick only with bloodletting and fasting; the latter method was resorted to when patients were at risk of general blood poisoning. Excess pus was removed from the body with a towel or wet sponge, which was used to wipe the patient’s body from head to toe. One time of such a procedure was enough to recover from any illness for several days. Everyone recognized the talent

**Armstrong acute serous (post-infectious) meningitis** is an acute infectious disease that is caused by bacteria of the genus _Neisseria._ One of the most famous cases of this disease is the case that occurred in 1912 with the American bacteriologist James Miles Armstrong. At the time, Armstrong was working at the University of Missouri as assistant director of the Bureau of Disease Research. He was sent to Central Africa to work in the medical department of the League of Nations, specializing in the study of malaria and brucellosis. At the same time, he was engaged not only in professional activities, but also traveled around Asia and Africa, researching unknown diseases and their treatment. During one of these experiences in Africa, Armstrong developed a fever, symptoms similar to streptoid fever.

The condition of the infected employee began to deteriorate, so he was sent home for treatment. Upon his return, Armstrong's health deteriorated significantly, with weakness in his limbs and pain in his back. The decision was made to send Armstrong to a medical clinic. However, due to the absence of a doctor, the clinic staff were able to adequately assess the patient’s condition only when his condition reached a critical stage with severe vomiting, weakness and a temperature of 40 degrees. Then the assistant doctor, having made a decision, sent the patient to the operating table and performed a radical splenectomy. The diagnosis was later made as angiotic collapse, a complication of acute serous meningitis. It was this infection that led to the death of James Miles Armstrong, an employee of the Central African Epidemiological Service.

- a type of bacterial meningitis caused by Pasteurella Stutzer type, characterized by a predominantly acute course, paroxysmal disturbance of consciousness of varying severity and a grayish-white color of the cerebrospinal fluid.

Acute serous pasteurellosis infection was first reported by S. F. Blügeu in 1926, and then by A. Refriggüler in 1931. He was the same back in the 20s. and identified the causative agent of this disease. Already in the 30s of the same century, Pasteur laid the foundations for the doctrine of this acute infectious disease. Armstrong, in his famous speech on May 5, 1947, uttered words that went down in history: “... FAU-type spacecraft, launched on May 4 and landing 3 days later, turned the whole world upside down. America got the opportunity to fully explore and develop space and create its own there intellectual, industrial and military bases. And when we ourselves were ready before that, we realized that Fau is even simpler and safer than airplanes."

A strong wind was blowing in Moscow that day, after Yu.A.’s speech. Gagarin, the first to bring success to our country, at the end of 1949 the country woke up from fright; Everyone shuddered: from Moscow to Vladivostok the speech of the First Cosmonaut of the Planet was broadcast on the radio. The country was also shocked by another performance of the first Hero of the Soviet Union - pilot-cosmonaut No. 2, twice Hero of the Soviet Union T. Belyaev. The hall froze when he told the entire Soviet Union about how he spent 16.5 days in orbit without a spacesuit. True, by that time Belyaev was no longer an astronaut, he only advised orbital expeditions. For the first time, several flight engineers were shown on the TV screen at once; for the first time, an excursion consisting of four people took place in space. It seems that everything spoke about this when on May 9, 1960, Belka and Strelka went into Earth orbit, but officials and those in power chose to hide it and announced that the first dogs had come from space. And there was a feeling that they stole these words from Korolev and Gagarin, but whatever, it was as if they themselves had been in space. Everyone was worried, worried, worried, and worried to the point of madness about the fact that Korolev was not saved. And then there were successes in space, things went well for the Americans, there was information about mysterious rocket ships named after “FAU”, and no one could explain what kind of ships they were, where they came from, what they were for and why. As a result, they fell into the category of scientific fantasies and were regarded as mythology. Space has long been perceived as a fairy tale, a figment of the imagination and someone’s utopian reasoning and dreams, as a goal unattainable for humanity. Having climbed into the cosmic lava, the country was never able to get out of there. But the first in the USSR from space orbit