抄録
The fact that toxemia of late pregnancy has effects on and stunts growth and development of fetus during intrauterine period, is undoubted according to earlier reports. However, it is still open to question whether or not growth and development of infants after birth may be influenced by toxemia of late pregnancy. The present author studied physical growth and development of infants, 3 months after birth, whose mothers developed toxemia of late pregnancy, by means of some classification s of weight at birth, and results obtained were as follows: (1) A great number of infants were born premature, when their mothers developed toxemia of late pregnancy and showed hypertension, albuminuria or both symptoms after childbirth. (2) Regarding physical growth, infants 3 months after birth, when their mothers had developed toxemia of late pregnancy and showed hypertension, proteinuria or both symptoms after deliver y, were markedly inferior to the control infants, in each class of their weight at birth. (3) Infants, whose mothers developed toxemia of late pregnancy but showed neither hypertension nor proteinuria after delivery, were inferior to the control group, but it might be due to the large number of growth level "small" at birth even though they were not premature infants born with the weight of 2,500 gms or less.
