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Traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries occur in a variety of accidents which may become the subject of civil litigation. A new field of medical jurisprudence, called neurolaw, is emerging to join health-care professionals and attorneys in a common quest to employ legal remedies to enhance the quality of life for individuals with neurological injury and their families. Presented here is a review of the underpinnings of this developing area of inquiry.

An epidemic of enteritis due to infection of milk with a Flexner type dysentery bacillus, causing over 1000 cases and 72 deaths, occurred in Aberdeen in 1919, and has previously been recorded in the Journal of Hygiene(1). Another mild-borne outbreak of enteritis, causing 110 cases and no deaths, occurred in 1923, and has similarly been recorded(2). The cause of this outbreak was not determined, but was assumed to be due to a living bacillus of unrecognised type. In July, 1925, there occurred a further extensive outbreak of enteritis, which has been proved to be due to infection of milk with Bacillus enteritidis Gaertner, and as the infection has been proved to be of bovine origin, the Gaertner bacillus having been isolated from the udder and flesh of the diseased cow, as well as from the infective milk, it appears advisable to record the out-break in considerable detail.