Puerperal Eclampsia
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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 eclampsia, as it is more correctly termed. The other two are merely attacks of hysteria or apoplexy, which happen to come on during pregnancy or parturition. But, in my own opinion, it would be much more rational to divide cases of puerperal eclampsia into three kinds, according to the time when the attack begins, whether before, during, or after labour; for the prognosis 2
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Gleanings from the Records of the Government Maternity Hospital, Madras
WE propose in this article to give the experiences of this hospital in the treatment of puerperal eclampsia, and to touch upon some of the salient features of this condition noted here So far, no analysis of a large number of cases of puerperal eclampsia in Indian cities has been published in recent years. _ The last article on the subject was a paper read in 1908 by Major G G Giffard, a former...
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