The vomiting of pregnancy : its causes and treatment / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1872
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Credit: The vomiting of pregnancy : its causes and treatment / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    bv no means universally prevented by retroflexion, a position which is most unnatural for the organ to be placed in, and which pretty effectually hinders conception, but in ante- flexion the bend of the uterus deviates less from that which is normal to it. Hence the result, clinically, that when obstinate sickness occurs it is infinitely more likely to be due to anteflexion than to retroflexion of the gravid organ. Diagram representing retroflexion of the gravid uterus. The assertion that flexion of the gravid uterus is generally the cause of the obstinate sickness sometimes observed in pregnancy is one which I need not say can be easily verified or not by examination of cases coming under actual observation. But it is necessary that a caution should be given in accepting any supposed negative results of such examination in particular cases. From what I have heard and seen of professional opinion on the matter it is not