Excerpt from The Therapeutic Gazette, Incorporating Medicine and the Medical Age, 1908, Vol. 32: A Monthly Journal of Practical Therapeutics No discussion of the treatment of dis ease can be rational or complete which does not consider the pathology of the affection. In the light of our present knowledge, eclampsia results from a complex toxemia whose materials are formed in the liver, cellular tissue, and kidneys of the mother, in the fetus, and in the placenta. The blood of the mother is burdened with poi sons whose circulation through the nervous system produces convulsions. The removal of the fetus and its appendages from the body of the mother favors cessation of the convulsions in many patients; in other cases it has no in uence whatever upon the course of the disease. Should the child survive its birth it may perish from the same toxemia which produced the maternal convulsions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."