Faecal vomiting and reversed peristalsis in functional nervous (cerebral) disease : a summary of cases and conclusions / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1904
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    FiECAL VOMITING AND REVERSED PERI- STALSIS IN FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS (CERE- BRAL) DISEASE: A SUMMARY OF CASES AND CONCLUSIONS. BY V. PABKES WEBER, M.D., F.R.C.P. Physician to the German Hospital, London. Some of the older literature bearing on the question of reversed peristalsis in the alimentary canal has been collected by J. J. Woodward.1 A. G. Guainierio2 gave the story of a man who vomited a suppository introduced into his rectum. J. Matthias de Gradibus3 related the case of a girl, aged 12, who not only vomited faecal matters, but afterwards enemata, which were ejected by the mouth shortly after they were introduced into the anus. This state of things lasted three days, during which suppositories introduced into the rectum were vomited in the same manner; when it was attempted to keep a suppository in place by a string, the string broke, and it was speedily vomited. D. S. Sennert cited a case observed by J. Optheus, in which a piece of tallow candle, used as a suppository, was vomited shortly after its intro- duction. Diemerbroeck recorded a case in which a supposi- tory was vomited, and likewise a case in which an enema was ejected by the mouth. Morgagni has referred to a number of similar cases. The following case I shall narrate in some detail, as I had an opportunity of observing the patient herself during some 1 “ Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion,” Washiugton, 1879. Part II., vol. i., p. 836. 2 Tractatus de Fluxibus, Gap. 2, Lyons edition of 1534, fol. 136. 3Practica, de Aegritudinibus Stomachi, Cap. 5, de Vomitu, fol. 213, Venice edition, 1502.