A Nosological Problem.

Abstract

To the Editor: —Will you kindly publish the history of the following case, allowing me to ask through the columns ofThe Journala solution of what seems to me an incomprehensible nosological problem. Ethel J., aged 8, the daughter of healthy parents, has never had any lingering or serious illness; digestion fairly good, bowels very inactive, appetite good, though capricious, sleeps well, subject to quite frequent attacks of headache. On the evening of August 20, shortly after supper, was seized with an attack of nausea and vomiting. The ejected matter consisted of partially digested food and a membranous substance of an irregular shape, six inches in length by five inches in width. On one side here and there were little lumps of fatty matter the size of a small pea. I have never in practice or in literature met with anything like it, and would be pleased to learn