On severe vomiting during pregnancy : a collection and analysis of cases with remarks on treatment / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1890
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Credit: On severe vomiting during pregnancy : a collection and analysis of cases with remarks on treatment / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE ASSOCIATION OF PREGNANCY WITH NAUSEA AND VOMITING Pkegnancy is commonly attended with more or less nausea, or nausea and vomiting. Hence these troublesome symptoms have come to be regarded as necessary accompaniments of utero-gestation. It is, on the other hand, undoubtedly the fact that pregnancy is not by any means always attended with sickness. So high an authority as Montgomery states that he has 'seen many instances in which females have been altogether exempt from this affection in several successive pregnancies, through which they have passed most favourably, and gave birth to strong and healthy children.'1 Such exceptional cases of healthy pregnancy without vomiting necessitate the conclusion that sickness is not a physiological or necessary accom- paniment of pregnancy. A further deduction follows —that the sickness, when it does occur, is pathological • m character, and that there must be between a woman who has a ' sick' pregnancy, and one who remains 1 Exposition of the Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy, p. 97. 1]