An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy : the period of human gestation, and the signs of delivery / by W. F. Montgomery.

  • Montgomery, W. F. (William Fetherston Haugh), 1797-1859.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy : the period of human gestation, and the signs of delivery / by W. F. Montgomery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FA SALIVATION. merely from the presence of such a symptom: at the same time a proper degree of inquiry will generally enable us to distinguish between the two kinds. The vomiting of pregnancy is not accompanied by any other symptom of ill health ; on the con- trary, the patient feels perhaps as well as ever in other respects, and may even take her meals with as much appetite and relish as at other times, but while doing so, or immediately after, she feels suddenly sick, and has hardly time to retire when she rejects the whole contents of the stomach, and presently feels quite well again: in some instances, however, the woman is distressed by a perpetual nausea, and in a few rare cases vomit- ing has been so excessive as to endanger or even destroy the life of the woman from inanition,# or by rupture of some internal organ, f Salivation.—By an extension of the sympathetic irritation which in the stomach causes nausea and vomiting, the salivary apparatus is in some persons excited to such a degree as to produce complete and copious salivation.;}; This fact was ex- pressly noticed by Hippocrates as one among the symptoms of pregnancy,^ and has been observed by many others since.|| Dr. Dewees records a well-marked instance of the kind,U and the writer was consulted about another in which it occurred pro- fusely in two successive pregnancies, but ceased immediately on delivery. This case entailed much undeserved blame on the attendant physician, who was accused of having given the lady so much calomel as to bring her system under the peculiar • See Mem. Load. Med. Soc. vol. ii. p. 125; Med. Chir. Trans, vol. iii. p. 139 ; Ashwell on Parturition, p. 194 ; Lond. Med. Gaz. vol. v. 1830, p. 287. t See Duparcque sur les dechirures de l'uterus, and Lond. Med. Gaz. Jan. 17, 1829. I Copiosa saliva; excretio: Roederer, Elem. p. 45. § The passage is quoted by Van Svvieten, vol. xiii. p. 371, sect. 1293. || See Gardien, vol. ii. p. 32. Burns, p. 237. ]\ Compendium of Midwifery, p. 115; see also Schniitt's twenty-second case, second div.j and Capuroa, p. 43.