“…Becker and Spingarn (1949) reviewed eight adults with H. influenzae meningitis before 1940, all but one of whom survived with non-specific therapy, and they suggested that the prognosis of the disease was better in adults than in children. Gladstone and Russell (1969) state that H. influenzae meningitis is less severe in the adult than in the child, and the mortality of H. influenzae meningitis in adults is low when compared wiht other forms of meningitis (Jervey and Charleston, 1963).…”