The Significance of Oxaluria

c.sist miiy colleague Dr. Wauigli the treatment of a case of eclailipsia.I suggested tlhat the admiiinistiation of chiloo- formi, if it was not alreadyl ill progrless, slhould be started at onice.On my arrival I fouind a "young, massive womani lvin(g on her side in bed.Slhe w-as almiiost fully dressed, was under the influenice of cliloroforin, comatose, an id-l Lreathing stertorously.Tlhe r'ooiii was dismanltled for spring cleaning.Thle patient, aged 22, a primigravida seven months pregnant, lhad beeni quite well till lhalf-past sevcai that evening.Slhe liad been.feeling sick occasionally, buit lhad regarded this symptom as tnimliportant.At the ante-niatal clinic, wlhere she had attended onice a month, her conditioni was considered to be good.Slhe ate a great deal, and was habitually constipated.At seven o'clock shic had gone upstairs to lhelp in the spriag cleaninig of the bedroom where she was lying.She knielt down.to clean a clhair, anid said that she felt sick.Slhe was told to sit down, anid was ,given a glass of water.She took a sip of water and was lhelped inito the bed.No sooner was slhe oni the bed tllan she had a fit, anid as the fit or fits continuied anid lher condition became alarming, Dr. Waugh, who had never seeni the patient before, was sent for.He iimmediately injected a qutariter of a grain of morphinie