Abstract
<h3>A REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON MATERNAL WELFARE</h3> Eclampsia, and the forms of toxemia associated with it, cause, annually, about 30 per cent of the approximately 15,000 maternal deaths in this country. There are many of the women who survive the convulsions and acute stages, or who recover from severe, nonconvulsive forms of toxemia and have permanent vascular or renal injuries which impair their health and shorten their lives. The American Committee on Maternal Welfare<sup>1</sup>is intensely interested in being of any possible assistance in lessening this morbidity and mortality and to this end has prepared this brief article on the treatment of the nonconvulsive forms of toxemia of pregnancy (preeclampsia) and of the convulsive types (eclampsia). The question of the exact terminology of these forms of toxemia is not of great moment. The term "preeclamptic toxemia" is used in the title chiefly because it is probably familiar to
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