Word: eclampsia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising was that the 10-to-30-cigarettes-a-day women had fewer incidents of the mysterious condition called "the toxemia of pregnancy." Early symptoms of this trouble are usually rising blood pressure, rapid weight gain and headache, followed by urinary difficulties and abdominal pain. This stage is "pre-eclampsia." The later stage of true eclampsia involves convulsions and threatens the lives of mother and child. Both the moderate and severe forms were less common among smoking than among nonsmoking mothers. Why? The Navy doctors went back to their delivery rooms without hazarding a guess, but hopeful of finding...
...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...