Albuminuria and Puerperal Eclampsia
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I. Predisposing.?Special weakness in the nervous system, either congenital or acquired by depressing circumstances, and possibly also aggravated by impaired nutritive cerebral changes, through an imperfectly depurated blood, arising from diseased kidneys. II. Efficient.?In addition to the above, anaemia of the cerebral motor centres, induced in the manner in which Traube and Rosenstein explain its production; this is not likely to occur, if it does not take place only then, when the blood is increased in bulk and rendered hydrsemic by the co-existence of kidney disease in some of its forms. III. Exceptional.?But in certain cases where no kidney disease is present it is difficult to see how the mechanical conditions required by the Traube-Rosenstein theory can be
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