PUERPERAL ALBUMINURIA.

Albuminuria and Puerperal Eclampsia

I. Predisposing.?Special weakness in the nervous system, either congenital or acquired by depressing circumstances, and possibly also aggravated by impaired nutritive cerebral changes, through an imperfectly depurated blood, arising from diseased kidneys. II. Efficient.?In addition to the above, anaemia of the cerebral motor centres, induced in the manner in which Traube and Rosenstein explain ...

Puerperal Albuminuria; Reflex Paralysis; Eclampsia

The subjects of Albuminuria and Eclampsia seem to have occupied the attention of this Society comparatively seldom within the last ten years. This may be in part accounted for by the valuable and instructive communications of Dr Angus Macdonald.1 With the exception of brief abstracts of cases given by the physicians of the Maternity Hospital in their quarterly returns, I find in addition to the...

Puerperal Septicæmia

Dr. GkddES presents the above admirable thesis based upon the fact that puerperal fever occurs more frequently in the practice of medical practitioners in Great Britain than in the practice of certified midwives, and one must confess that he has proved his case in this book. Puerperal fever, unfortunately, does not seem to get any less in its incidence, and it would appear that while the majori...

Puerperal Fever

Puerperal Fever

commend curetting in acute cases, an operation which is practically condemned by all modern writers. No mention is made of any other operative treatment such as pelvic drainage, hysterectomy, ligature of pelvic veins, removal of tubes or ovaries, etc., all of which may have to be considered under certain conditions, nor does he seem to be aware that the treatment of puerperal septicaemia by mea...