Puerperal Convulsions during Delivery: Craniotomy
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The following notes of a case of puerperal convulsions will, I trust, prove of great professional interest to the many readers of your journal owing to the unusual nature of some of the symptoms therein recorded. Some time ago I was hurriedly called in to see a Bohra woman, suffering from violent puerperal convulsions. She was a young, well-built woman of 2-3 years, in her tenth month of pregnancy. On enquiry I found that this was her second labour, and that her first one was natural and at
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