Malignant Endocarditis during Pregnancy, with an Illustrative Case
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literature of the subject suffices to show how well founded this statement is. The disease itself is actually about three times as common in the male sex as in the female. But of forty-nine fatal cases occurring in the female, in the statistics of Kanthack and Kelynack, we find eight put down to puerperal infection? an average of rather more than 16 per cent. On the other hand, the occurrence of malignant endocarditis in pregnancy is a rarity. In his Goulstonian lectures on malignant endocarditis, Osier mentions four cases as having occurred in pregnancy. In addition to these, I have been able to find only two more cases, after an extensive, if not exhaustive, search through the
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