Therapy of Toxaemias of Pregnancy

The Toxaemias of Pregnancy

Albuminuria in Pregnancy *Paper opening a discussion at at meeting of the Bath, Bristol and Somerset Branch of the British Medical Association held on 25th May, 1932.

significance of the presence of albumin in the urine of a pregnant woman. It is obviously of the greatest ^portance to both midwife and doctor that a condition ^vhich is rapidly tending to a catastrophe should be recognized and promptly dealt with, while it is equally important not to frighten the patient and her relatives by needless excitement and alarming prognosis. For clinical purposes it ...

Studies on Metabolism of Calcium, Inorganic Phosphorus and Cholesterol in Pre-Eclamptic Toxaemias of Pregnancy

Pre-eclamptic toxaemia is by far the most common manifestation of pregnancy toxamria ln the late months of pregnancy. It is this late aPpearance in pregnancy which really distinguishes it clinically from other varities of toxemia in pregnancy e.g. essential hypertension a^d chronic glomerular nephritis in association with pregnancy, for in these latter conditions the symptoms and signs are near...

Toxæmias of Pregnancy

are continental, but one wonders if the author has ever visited the clinics of some of the authorities he quotes, for the findings of horn-spectacled professors in laboratories c&nnot be compared with those who base their deductions on the pathology of the living. ?Dr. Stander however writes without bias, and having stated multitudinous theories, always gives us the benefit of the experiences a...

Textbook of Midwifery

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussio...