Abstract
The philosophy of treatment in eclampsia cannot rest upon the principle of combatting every symptom with many therapeutic weapons until the symptom, and occasionally the patient, fades away. It should rest rather upon assisting the maternal organism to keep its own compensatory efforts within the bounds of safety, preventing damage to vital organs where possible, and removing the cause of the disease by termination of the pregnancy whenever that may be done with safety to both mother and child. Such assistance must necessarily be based upon current understanding of the disturbances which underlie each symptom.
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