VOMITING OF PREGNANCY; ITS ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT.Read before the Allegheny County Medical Society, June 16, 1891.

Abstract

Pregnancy, as a rule, is complicated with a variety of disorders, which, though in many instances causing much discomfort, are termed physiological as long as they are not associated with serious disturbances of the organism. Derangements of the gastro-intestinal canal, nausea and vomiting, to the consideration of which I invite your attention to-night, are such a regular occurrence during the early period of pregnancy that experienced women consider them as positive signs of conception. The so-called morning sickness—nausea and vomiting early in the morning, or even after meals, during the first few months of gestation—have, in the large majority of cases, no effect either upon the course of pregnancy or upon the health of women. Although the ordinary morning sickness sometimes persists during the whole period of pregnancy, it remains endurable, causing the patient rather annoyance than injury. There are intermissions, either spontaneously or the consequence of some treatment; the