“…Abdominal pain has been described early in meningococcal meningitis, being occasionally prominent enough to obscure the true diagnosis (Worster-Drought and Kennedy, 1919). Heematurta is also known to complicate the disease (Fairley and Stewart, 1916;Gilchrist and Griffiths, 1954;"Tobin, 1956;Worster-Drought and Kennedy, 1919) but there is no mention of association of the two symptoms.…”