Word: eclampsia
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...that state she was carried to the University of Vienna's gynecological clinic directed by Dr. Wilhelm Weibel. To his trained eye the woman was in a state of eclampsia. Her baby had become a deadly living tumor in her womb, was poisoning her to death. A caesarean section was plainly in order. Dr. Weibel had the woman placed on an operating table and prepared. His assistant, Dr. Ernst Preissecker, loaded a sterilized portable cinema camera to photograph Dr. Weibel at work for the benefit of medical students...
...brevity, but it has been demonstrated in recent years that epilepsy is not a disease--it is a type of reaction of the human body to different abnormal stimulations: it has various causes. Thus the field of study must be broadened to include the convulsions of childhood, the eclampsia of pregnancy, uremia, asphyxia and other allied conditions. When these are all better understood there will be more chance of helping the chronic sufferer--the epileptic...