Classification and Etiology of the Functional and Organic Disturbances of Pregnancy (Gestoses)

Prophylaxis and Treatment of Toxaemia of Late Pregnancy With Special Reference to Acidifying Salts

“…15 1 per mille, I3P < 160 mm IIg) on the basis of a classification used in a previous work (18). As this classification has been used in our Clinic until quite recently,we considered it advisable not to attempt another classification on the basis newer criteria (30). In this way our case material of toxaemia includes all patients delivered in whom albumen was noted in the urine, thus also some cases of nephritis and nephrosis which it is not always possible to exclude definitely; according t o S A U R A M O (30), they amount to scarcely one-fifth of all the cases of toxaemia with albumen in the urine.…”