Case of Eclampsia in Which Lumbar Puncture Was Performed

holds out a hope of better results. So in the past few years we have heard much of Bossi's dilator, of thyroid extract, and of saline infusions, and a little of decapsulation of the kidney and of lumbar puncture. It will not, I suppose, be denied that the giving of saline infusions, the employment of Bossi's dilator, and the administration of thyroid extract or of iodide of potassium have all in a certain degree tended to diminish the risks of eclampsia gravidarum. Neither, however, can it be denied that they may all fail, even when