On severe vomiting during pregnancy : a collection and analysis of cases with remarks on treatment / by Graily Hewitt.
- Graily Hewitt
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On severe vomiting during pregnancy : a collection and analysis of cases with remarks on treatment / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![VOMITING li\ ritEGNAJS'CY I VOMITING IN PREGNANCY—ENVMEBATION OF CASES The series of cases now to be enumerated consists of those in wliicli some lesion lias been found on post- mortem examination, considered by the reporter of the case sufficient to account for the vomiting, without necessity for recourse to the idea that the vomiting was due solely to the pregnancy. The following table, which is, probably, not ex- haustive, contains 24 cases in which, on pathological or other evidence, it may be concluded that the vomiting was not actually due to pregnancy per se} Concerning these, it is to be remarked that the evidence is not conclusive in all of them that the lesions mentioned — chronic gastritis (1 case), red- ness and softening of the stomach (1), injection of gastric mucous membrane (? 3), and some others in the list—can be accepted as responsible for the fatal event. It may be suggested that, so far as gastric changes are concerned, probably the gastric lesions may have been more an effect of the vomiting than a cause thereof. I have seen cases of vomiting in which there was no pregnancy, but in which the * As regards the numbering of the cases included in this Essay, I have found it convenient to number the whole of them consecutive]^'. The grouping of the cases here adopted, although as natiu-al as I could make it, is necessarily arbitrary. The numbering within each sepajrato group is for the most part chronological.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21520574_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
