Chapter IX: COMPLICATIONS AND ACCIDENTS OF PREGNANCY. Premature

Terminations of Pregnancy. Definition of Terms. Abortions. Causes:
Abnormalities of Fetus; Abnormalities in the Generative Tract; Acute
Infectious Diseases; Mental or Emotional Stress; Physical Shocks.
Premonitory Symptoms. Prevention, Treatment, and Nursing Care of
Threatened, Incomplete, and Complete Abortions. Missed Abortion.
Therapeutic Abortion. Clerical and Legal Aspects of Abortion.
Criminal Abortion. Premature Labor: Causes, Treatment and Nursing
Care. Ante-partum Hemorrhage. Placenta Prævia: Cause, Symptoms,
Treatment and Nursing Care. Premature Separation of a Normally
Implanted Placenta: Cause, Symptoms, Treatment and Nursing Care.
Toxemias of Pregnancy. Pernicious Vomiting of Pregnancy. Symptoms,
Treatment and Nursing Care of Reflex Vomiting, Neurotic Vomiting,
Toxemic Vomiting. Pre-eclamptic Toxemia: Symptoms, Prevention,
Treatment and Nursing Care. Eclampsia: Symptoms, Treatment and
Nursing Care. Nephritic Toxemia: Cause, Symptoms, Treatment and
Nursing Care. Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver: Cause, Symptoms,
Treatment and Nursing Care. Other Important Complications of
Pregnancy: Syphilis. Heart Lesions. Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Thyroidism. Pyelitis. Gonorrhea.