HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM

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Abstract
Two previous communications bearing on the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum have been published by co-workers and myself,1and in both of them we discussed the rôle which a carbohydrate deficiency in the diet and metabolism of pregnant women probably plays in the development of pregnancy toxemias. Priority is claimed for these papers, moreover, in the recommendation that glucose administered intravenously is a definite and important therapeutic measure in both hyperemesis gravidarum and eclampsia. Indeed, this treatment seems now to have become so generally accepted as an addition to the established methods that it is scarcely necessary to make furthur claims as regards its value. Glucose injected intravenously has at present a wide application as a therapeutic agent in various medical and surgical conditions, but there seems still to be a diversity of opinions as to the dose of the sugar, the preparations of glucose to use, the concentration of

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