A CURIOUS COMPLICATION OF PUERPERAL ECLAMPSIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS FOR EIGHTY-FOUR HOURS; RECOVERY.

Puerperal Eclampsia

Puerperal Eclampsia

Sir,?From Table III and footnotes of Major Gifford's article on Puerperal Eclampsia in the November number of the Indian Medical Gazette, it would appear that cases shown under each drug were not treated by that drug alone but. in combination with other drugs. During the first decade 158 women were treated, but the total of the numbers under each drug comes to 827. Each complete plan of medical...

Puerperal Eclampsia

Puerperal Eclampsia

on Puerperal Eclampsia. In one of the issues of the B. M. J. or Lancet last year an article appeared strongly advocating nitroglycerine liypodermically and by the mouth, specially the former. One very severe case recovered in this hospital under this treatment. Delivery was effected as rapidly as possible. Mins. ii of a 1% Soln. of Nitroglycerine were injected every two or three hours. Chlorofo...

Puerperal Eclampsia

In most handbooks on Midwifery, excepting a few of the more modern, puerperal convulsions are divided into three classes; viz., the hysterical, the epileptic, and the apoplectic. It is difficult to understand why such a classification was ever made. There is only one of these three that has any claim to be considered a distinct disease sui generis; and that is the epileptic form, or puerperal e...