Clay reported a
case due to ascites. Cases of pseudocyesis in women convicted of
murder are not uncommon, though most of them are imposters hoping
for an extra lease of life.
Croon speaks of a child seven years old on whom he performed
ovariotomy for a round-celled sarcoma. She had been well up to
May, but since then she had several times been raped by a boy, in
consequence of which she had constant uterine hemorrhage. Shortly
after the first coitus her abdomen began to enlarge, the breasts
to develop, and the areolae to darken. In seven months the
abdomen presented the signs of pregnancy, but the cervix was soft
and patulous; the sound entered three inches and was followed by
some hemorrhage. The child was well developed, the mons was
covered with hair, and all the associate symptoms tended to
increase the deception.
Sympathetic Male Nausea of Pregnancy.--Associated with pregnancy
there are often present morning-nausea and vomiting as prominent
and reliable symptoms. Vomiting is often so excessive as to be
provocative of most serious issue and even warranting the
induction of abortion. This fact is well known and has been
thoroughly discussed, but with it is associated an interesting
point, the occasional association of the same symptoms
sympathetically in the husband.
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