On the pathology of the pneumogastric nerve : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1876 / by S. O. Habershon.
- Habershon, Samuel Osborne, 1825-1889.
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the pathology of the pneumogastric nerve : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1876 / by S. O. Habershon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![vomiting, however, induced me to believe tliat this might not be the case, and I could not consent to the decided opinion of malignant disease being present. This lady was about fifty-five years of age, and mens- truation had ceased for several years. She went into the country, and, whilst there, all the gastric symptoms ceased, but the abdomen began to swell; she returned to town with evident symptoms of ovarian dropsy. The fluid was drawn off by paracentesis abdominis, and afterwards a large ovarian cyst was success- fully removed. Yery similar are those cases of gastric trouble in young married people, where conception has not taken place, but where there is reflex action and sympathetic disturbance from ova- rian and uterine irritation of the ]3iie'^i^ogastric nerve. These instances are often misunderstood, because menstruation continues regularly, and it may be, without pain. The gastric branches in this way become exceedingly irritable, and vomiting is a troublesome and harassing sjnnptom; sometimes it is almost constant, at other times only on slight nervous excitement or over-fatigue; the excitement of going into company, or of mixing in society, may be quite sufiicient to bring on severe vomiting. Of the same kind is the troublesome vomiting present in young people, with scanty or disordered menstruation and clilorosis. The food is rejected at once, almost as soon as it reaches the stomach, but without much distress ; there may be scarcely any pain, and some of these patients appear to be plimip and well](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055993_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
