Veratrum Viride in Puerperal Convulsions

The electrocardiographic effects of intravenous veratrum viride.

1PieviouslyI unlote(l Twave inversions in the l)Iecoldial leads resulting from the intravenous injection of veratrumii viride are (lescribe(l. Evidence is presented that these (changes are not caused either by the hypotensive action of the drug or by myocardial anoxia or by hvpopotassenmia. The T-wave inversions probably. result frnom vmagal stimulation which cause altered ventricular repolariz...

The Electrocardiographic Efects of Intravenous Veratrum Viride

1PieviouslyI unlote(l Twave inversions in the l)Iecoldial leads resulting from the intravenous injection of veratrumii viride are (lescribe(l. Evidence is presented that these (changes are not caused either by the hypotensive action of the drug or by myocardial anoxia or by hvpopotassenmia. The T-wave inversions probably. result frnom vmagal stimulation which cause altered ventricular repolariz...

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 :...

Case of Puerperal Convulsions

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...