A study of some aspects of the toxaemias of late pregnancy in the City of Cape Town

The General Introduction in Section 1, Page 1 describes briefly the scope of the work in this thesis. Section 2 deals with the Historical facts with emphasis on the History in South Africa which has never been published previously. In addition the.general history as well as the literature concerning the Etiology, Pathogenesis and follow up studies is summarised. Section 3 is a study of the incidence of the Toxaemias of late pregnancy within the municipal boundaries of the city of Cape Town and the Langa Native Township, and their racial grouping. A separate introduction on page 38 as well as the problems investigated on page 48 and the standards employed on page 49 as well ·as the methods and material on page 50 indicate how this problem was investigated. The conclusions of this aspect of the study are summarised on page 850. Section 4 deals with follow up studies of 100 cases of non-convulsive toxaemia and 100 cases of eclampsia, and the material and methods are described on pages 88 and 94 respectively. Section 5 portrays the results of the follow up studies and the conclusions reached in this regard. In addition fields for further investigation are suggested on page 22,9. Section 6, the Appendix, gives additional case history information and Section 7 reproduces the Bibliography used.

Grantor

Department of Medicine

Year dc:date.issued

1954

Author dc:creator

• Oosthuysen, Lucas van Rooyen

• Pregnancy toxemias

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31991

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/31991