Pre-eclampsia historical perspective
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- Eclampsia was first identified by Francois Mauriceau, a french obstetrician in the 17th century following finding the correlation between convulsion in primigravidas and suppression of lochial flow or intrauterine fetal death. [1]
Born in 1637, Frenchman Francois Mauriceau was one such man whose writings helped to establish obstetrics as a specialty (Speert, 1958). According to McMillen (2003), he was the first to systematically describe eclampsia and to note that primigravidas were at greater risk for convulsions compared to multigravidas. As for the causes of convulsions, Mauriceau attributed convulsions to either abnormalities in lochial flow or intrauterine fetal death. In the case of supressed lochial flow, inflammation, pains in the head, convulsions, suffocation, and death could arise. In the case of intrauterine fetal death, a retained dead fetus gave off foul-smelling and cadaverous humours in the womb, predisposing a woman to convulsions
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References
- ↑ Kiple, Kenneth (2003). The Cambridge historical dictionary of disease. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521530262.