Word: toxemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hner test showed normal sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick's sign was positive. A Papanicolaou smear was negative. Her Aschheim-Zondek was positive...
Prebirth information begins with a detailed form in which the mother can describe her pregnancy, including such complications as toxemia and German measles. There are blanks for a description of labor, which should show whether the child, if handicapped in any way, might have been injured at birth. Blood type and Rh status are recorded for father and mother as well as baby. There is a three-page blank for details of baby's first medical examination after leaving the hospital, to be filled in by the doctor and pasted in the book...
Item: countless pregnant women are subjected to outside emotional stresses, such as loss of husband by death or desertion, serious illness or death of a child, loss of income, housing problems. Item: many also suffer mysterious internal stresses apparently brought on by pregnancy, e.g., continued uterine bleeding or toxemia, an ill-defined, little-understood condition believed to be caused by unidentified poisons, often accompanied by high blood pressure, liver or kidney disease. Item: countless babies are born sickly, or with obvious deformities, or with impaired mental powers. Doctors are asking themselves what connection there is between these facts...
...retarded children, no fewer than 67 resulted from troubled pregnancies. In 24 cases, the mothers had clearly been ill-half of them suffering from toxemia. In 38 cases there had been marked emotional stress brought on by husband trouble, illness or death in the family, threat of eviction, or, in the case of two unwed women, being abandoned by the men they had expected to marry. There were nine cases of shock or accident. With some overlaps, such factors were found in 66% of the retarded children's backgrounds, but in only 30% of the normal children...
...During pregnancy, a Type 0 woman is more likely to develop toxemia. ¶ The danger of lung cancer seems unrelated to the ABO groupings, but one study suggested that Rh-negative people are slightly less subject to this fast-increasing disease than others. ¶ Cancer of the stomach is significantly commoner among Type A subjects, but no such relationship has been found in cancers elsewhere...