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

Say Captain Maximillian Christian Kern and the other Navy doctors who report the case in the Naval Medical Bulletin: "Burn patients die not of their burns, but of shock, toxemia or sepsis."

From Time Magazine Archive

In one clinic where this method has been adopted the frequency of all kinds of toxemia, I am told, has notably diminished, and serious types are not permitted to develop.

From The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by Slemons, J. Morris (Josiah Morris)