SOME SUGGESTIONS IN THE PROPHYLAXIS AND MANAGEMENT OF PUERPERAL ECLAMPSIA.

Abstract

My experience in the prophylaxis, treatment and management of puerperal eclampsia has been confined in recent years entirely to private practice, yet it has been within my province to observe a sufficient number of cases to form some deductions and conclusions. However, I shall lay no actual claim to originality in inception. My suggestions are gathered from applications largely original with others. The pathology and etiology of puerperal eclampsia is still an unsettled question—theories are numerous as well as contradictory; the text-books, and chairs in medical schools are brimming over with them, but nothing as yet has been positively proven, settled, or definitely accepted by the profession as a whole. As practitioners at the present time we necessarily occupy the position of clinicians awaiting instruction. Until pathologists are able to present to us true indisputable pathologic facts we must fall back upon our own clinic experiences. But to properly apply