Case of Heart Disease Complicating Labour Treated Successfully by Nitrite of Amyl

in the third stage. Mrs F., set. 36, iii.-para, was admitted on the 7th April 1889 at 11 p.m. On admission she was in a very bad state, too ill, indeed, to give any reliable account of her condition. When called to see her I found patient sitting up in bed struggling for breath, any attempt to lie down being followed by a feeling of suffocation. The face was cyanotic and of a grey hue, lips livid, pupils dilated. In addition she was much troubled with severe cough and expectoration of frothy, muco-purulent, blood-stained sputum. The history (taken twelve hours after admission) showed that she was now in her third pregnancy, and at full time. The first two labours