He knew that sometimes a woman had only one puerperal convulsion; it was recorded that a few patients had survived as many as a hundred.

It derives from the Greek; Dr. Larch had told him that the word refers to the flashes of light a patient sees at the onset of the puerperal convulsions.

The harangue that developed at the railroad station over the arrival of the body Homer would call Clara gave Homer his first experience with eclamptic convulsions -or puerperal convulsions, as they were called in Wilbur Larch's days at the Boston Lying-in.

Du traitement de l'eclampsie puerpérale (Paris 1888) - Treatment for puerperal eclampsia.

Zur Statistik der Behandlung der puerperalen Eklampsie mit heissen Bädern (1884) - Statistics for the treatment of puerperal eclampsia with hot baths.