There is hardly a subject connected with obstetrics, or medical practice, that has been spoken and written upon so much as puerperal eclampsia, and yet the profession seems to be as unsettled in regard to its treatment, as it was forty years ago. One practitioner adheres to the long taught plan of bleeding by venesection, another pins his faith upon opium, chloral, chloroform, veratrum, etc. The first discards opiates and narcotics, as a rule, while the other would think it almost criminal to open a vein. Success has without doubt attended both modes of practice, but there are cases where the exclusive adoption of either, would prove disastrous. I propose to give to this Section the history of a number of cases, fifteen in all, that have come under my own observation and management, where venesection has been resorted to in all of them but one, and the favorable results