The Toxæmias of Pregnancy
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Mcllroy, D.B.E., LL.D., M.D., D.Sc., F.C.O.G., M.R.C.P. 1936. Edward Arnold and Company, London. Pp. xi plus 355. Illustrated. Price, 14s. Although any book by Dame Louise Mcllroy would command attention, this one, which is an amplification of her Ingleby Lectures of 1934, is so important that it should be^ read and re-read by all who are engaged in the practice of obstetrics. If proof of this be needed it will be found in the first few pages, where it is pointed out that toxemia of pregnancy is responsible for about twenty per cent of maternal deaths in England and is now the commonest
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The Ante-Natal Care of the Expectant Mother, with Reference to the Prevention and Treatment of the Toxæmias of Pregnancy
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