The present report concerns two cases of extensive bilateral globular detachment of the retina with complete reattachment, occurring in eclampsia. Both cases were seen on the maternity service of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. All patients with toxemia of pregnancy coming to the wards of this hospital from October, 1926, to December, 1928, a period of twenty-five months, were examined ophthalmoscopically. During this time, there were 1,024 deliveries; among these, there were 173 cases of late toxemia, an incidence of 16.9 per cent. Among the latter there were nineteen cases of eclampsia, an incidence of 10.9 per cent. This gives an incidence of 1.2 per cent for retinal detachment among the cases of late toxemia and of 10.4 per cent among the cases of eclampsia.
Schiötz1 reported seven cases observed in a period of five years at the Christiania Clinic. During this time, 8,400 pregnant women