On the issue of eclampsia therapy

It is unlikely that I will be mistaken," says F. I. Pozharisky in his article "Pathological anatomy of eclampsia", "if I notice that eclampsia is "lucky" more than all other diseases, in the sense of an abundance of literary data on this issue. And, however, despite all the efforts of scientific thought, the essence of eclampsia, its etiology, remain sufficiently incomprehensible for us to this day“" Looking through the literature on eclampsia, reviewing the numerous theories that have been proposed by various authors at different times, one should come to the conclusion that, although there is not a single organ in a woman's body that would not be attributed a dominant role in the symptom complex of eclampsia, everything that has been written remains in the field of theories, more or less probable. No wonder Zweifel called eclampsia a "disease of theory". At present, it seems to us, it is possible to outline two directions that dominate the question of the etiology of the disease we are interested in: 1) intoxication theory and 2) endocrine theory, which seeks to explain the pathogenesis of eclampsia in terms of impaired correlation of the endocrine glands. Which of these theories is closer to the truth is difficult to say; it can only be noted that the most common is currently? time is a relatively young theory of poisoning the mother's body with toxic substances formed and coming from the side of the growing fetus.