Case of Puerperal Convulsions

Puerperal Convulsions during Delivery: Craniotomy

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 pregna...

A Case of Puerperal Convulsions. Treated with Chloroform Inhalation

snore loudly, and as she could not be roused, the door was forced, and the girl was found lying flat on the floor quite insensible, her breathing stertorous, eyes semi-closed, jaws locked, features distorted, and a stream of bloody froth running out from both the angles of the mouth, her muscles rigid, her dress saturated with urine, voided involuntarily, with violent convulsions occurring almo...

Puerperal Albuminuria; Reflex Paralysis; Eclampsia

The subjects of Albuminuria and Eclampsia seem to have occupied the attention of this Society comparatively seldom within the last ten years. This may be in part accounted for by the valuable and instructive communications of Dr Angus Macdonald.1 With the exception of brief abstracts of cases given by the physicians of the Maternity Hospital in their quarterly returns, I find in addition to the...

Three Cases of Puerperal Convulsions Treated by Venesection

Puerperal Eclampsia

In most handbooks on Midwifery, excepting a few of the more modern, puerperal convulsions are divided into three classes; viz., the hysterical, the epileptic, and the apoplectic. It is difficult to understand why such a classification was ever made. There is only one of these three that has any claim to be considered a distinct disease sui generis; and that is the epileptic form, or puerperal e...