Case of Labour Complicated with Acute Nephritis and Eclampsia

Mrs A., aged 27 years, states that she has always enjoyed good health, but according to her mother's account she suffered from "fits "for two years, between 15 and 17 years of age, but after scarlet fever at 17, had never any return of them. She came under my care in April 1879, when she was delivered of her first child. Her labour though protracted was natural, recovery rapid. She nursed her child, which died of meningitis with convulsions after a short illness, when ten months old. Her second labour commenced on 13th February 1881, about