PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS.

Case of Puerperal Convulsions

Nitro-Glycerin in Puerperal Convulsions

was felt. The physician was finally summoned, with the request to go immediately, as the patient was in convulsions. He says, " On my arrival, I found her lying on the floor in convulsions, which, however, were less violent than they had been. On their first appearance, the midwife had, with considerable presence of mind, applied sinapisms to the calves of the legs and to the nape of the neck :...

Puerperal Convulsions during Delivery: Craniotomy

The following notes of a case of puerperal convulsions will, I trust, prove of great professional interest to the many readers of your journal owing to the unusual nature of some of the symptoms therein recorded. Some time ago I was hurriedly called in to see a Bohra woman, suffering from violent puerperal convulsions. She was a young, well-built woman of 2-3 years, in her tenth month of pregna...

The Thyroid Gland and Puerperal Convulsions

gastric juice or mineral acids }11to a proteid and another substance which gives :io proteid reaction. This contains all the iodine (about 14 %) and is known as iodo-thyrin. Very little is known about its chemistry beyond that it is not a proteid, and that it contains all the iodine in organic combination. The iodine found in iodo-thyrin must certainly be derived from the food, but the mere tra...

Three Cases of Puerperal Convulsions Treated by Venesection