The interpretation placed on their findings by Dr. Petrucco and his colleagues may well have been influenced by recent descriptions of glomerulopathy in the pregnant mouse an;d guinea-pig. An immunological reaction involving the HLA system may well occur, but I personally am not convinced on this evidence that it is the explanation for pre-eclampsia.-I am, etc.,
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