Puerperal Eclampsia
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Sir,?From Table III and footnotes of Major Gifford's article on Puerperal Eclampsia in the November number of the Indian Medical Gazette, it would appear that cases shown under each drug were not treated by that drug alone but. in combination with other drugs. During the first decade 158 women were treated, but the total of the numbers under each drug comes to 827. Each complete plan of medical treatment and its results have not been shown, and one can only see that a certain drug was used more than another without knowing with what effect. From the tables for the first and second decades it would appear that in the second decade chloroform was used
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