A textbook of obstetrics . as scarcely to attractthe womans attention, and all the subjective signs of pregnancymay be accurately described. It often requires in these cases anexamination under anesthesia before the unimpregnated conditionof the uterus can be detected. Weir Mitchell asserts that once. Fig. 148.—Pseudocyesis : Amenorrheafor eight months, but vicarious menstruationfrom nose every month. The uterus is nor-mal in size, position, movability. The ab-dominal distention is due solely to tympanitesand fat. I I 210 PREGNANCY. these womens minds arc disabused of the idea that the) arc pr
A textbook of obstetrics . as scarcely to attractthe womans attention, and all the subjective signs of pregnancymay be accurately described. It often requires in these cases anexamination under anesthesia before the unimpregnated conditionof the uterus can be detected. Weir Mitchell asserts that once. Fig. 148.—Pseudocyesis : Amenorrheafor eight months, but vicarious menstruationfrom nose every month. The uterus is nor-mal in size, position, movability. The ab-dominal distention is due solely to tympanitesand fat. I I 210 PREGNANCY. these womens minds arc disabused of the idea that the) arc preg-nant, the abdominal enlargement rapidly subsides and all the sub-jective symptoms of pregnancy immediately disappear. I have nodoubt o\ the accuracy of Dr. Mitchells observation, but I can not confirm his statement because the patient who is assured she is notpregnant disappears from my view. Occasionally it is impossibleto convince a woman that she is not pregnant if she has allowed of pregnancy to take entire possession of her mind. Thereapplied for admission on one occasion, at the Maternity Hospitalof Philadelphia, a little, wizened old lady with gray hair, whowas apparently at least sixty years old. She volunteered thestatement that many years before she had subjected hersel
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