SOME ANTENATAL PROBLEMS TMEDICAL JOURNAL 59 pregnant, and complained of breathlessness on exertion, such as walking upstairs, during the previous four weeks. She had unmistakable mitral stenosis, with a few extrasystoles, but no fibrillation-the pulse 120 and of indifferent volume and tension-no oedema, and no liver enlargement. She responded satisfactorily to treatment, which included complete rest, light diet, aperients, 10 minim doses of tinct. digitalis, sometimes comrrbined with 5 grains of sodium bromide, and was allowed, after six weeks in hospital, to return home with strict injunctions as to rest and suitable regimen. She returned to hospital in her thirty-fourth week. The general condition was fair-pulse 94, no auricular fibrillation;

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