CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF LATE TOXEMIAS OF PREGNANCY
- 25 August 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 103 (8) , 548-552
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750340012004
Abstract
F. S. Newell,1in addressing the alumni of the New York Lying-In Hospital, Nov. 12, 1913, said: "Any one reading the two papers on eclampsia which were presented at the last meeting of the New York State Medical Society, one on the surgical and one on the medical treatment of eclampsia, unless he has strong views of his own, would be in serious doubt as to how to treat a case of toxemia, because he is told on the one hand that the only real hope of the eclamptic patient lies in the immediate emptying of the uterus,... and on the other hand he is assured that the only safe method of treating eclampsia is by purely medical means." Twenty years later, the routine surgical treatment of eclampsia cannot be seriously considered by one who has even superficially examined the contributions of Stroganoff2and others. The definitely loweredKeywords
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