Some Aspects of Eclampsia

ECLAMPSIA is a disease of theories and personal prejUd(li(S. 'l[his comimunication endleavours to present certaini facts emerging from a study of eighty-two conisecutive cases at the Jubilee Maternity Hospital in the ten-year period 1939-48. Ihese cases were treated mainlyr by the originial Stroganoff technique, but in the last two N7ears nmagniesiumii sulphate, so(liutm -ardenal, and other drugs were also used. TABLE I ('\SEs OF' EclANMPS.IA, 1939-48 Number of cases (82 Number of infanits born 83 Maternal deaths 10 12.2 per cent. Live births 5566.3 per cent. Stillbirths 28 33.7 per cent. Neo-natal deaths 12 1 4.5 per ent. Tootal foetal mortalitv 40 18.2 per cent. Recurrent eclampsia 2 2.4 per cent. Primigravida 51 62.2 per cent. Multipara 31 37.8 per cent. Male infants 36 43.4 per cent. Female infants 47 56.6 per cent.