toxemia

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Drake suspects that one goat who was suffering from pregnancy toxemia is long dead because she didn’t receive the medicine she needed the next morning.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024

An otherwise healthy 28-year-old had died from toxemia poisoning caused by pre-eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy that went untreated.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Dr. Clarkson barges in and demands to test for toxemia.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2013

At a press conference, Steptoe explained that the baby was delivered early by caesarean section because Lesley Brown had developed toxemia, a disorder of pregnancy usually associated with hypertension that can lead to stillbirth.

From Time Magazine Archive

These were secondary to a toxic colon, toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined Organic, vegetarian legume-rich diet into toxemia.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve