Abstract
There are many discussion about infection due to corticosteroids and due to malnutrition. It was reported by Kumagai that the severe side effects of corticosteroids were infection, complication of digestive organs and psycho-neurosis.
In our sanatorium, there are 80 patients of cerebral palsy and 10 of them died by Oct., 73, Autopsy was done in 6 cases of them. In this paper, we report about one of these autopsy case who had a hydrocephalus due to pheumococcal meningoencephalitis during treatment of nephrotic syndrome by corticosteroids. Moreover he was aggravated by starvation cure as a popular remedy of nephrotic syndrome in it's initial stage.
