結核性脑膜炎在抗菌剂尙未问世以前,死亡率高达百分之百,如吳氏在1936年分析200病案就說明只能对症疗法并无特殊治疗办法,M.C.Sweeney氏在1933～1947年所收治的297例,入院后均逐漸进入昏迷而死亡,自从1947年起抗菌剂不断问世后,对肺結核和肺外結核在治疗上出現了嶄新面 Tuberculous meningitis in the antibacterial agent was not available before the death rate as high as 100%, such as Wu’s case analysis in 1936, 200 cases showed no specific treatment for symptomatic treatment, MCSweeney’s in 1933 to 1947, treated 297 Cases, after admission are gradually into a coma and death, antibacterial agents since 1947 after the advent of the tuberculosis and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in the treatment of a new face