A female, aged 20 years, primipara, apparently in good health, 9 months' pregnancy with history of bad constipation, and passing abnormally small quantities of urine, was attacked with eclampsia. The attack began with convulsions of the face and then the extremities, jaws were tightly clenched, and when I saw the patient (on 19th February, 1918, 8-30 A.M.), she was comatose. Two-thirds of a gra...