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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER II
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His nausea continued for two months, and was the same as that which he had suffered during his wife's former pregnancies, although not until both he and his wife became aware of the existence of pregnancy.

The Lancet describes a case in which the husband's nausea and vomiting, as well as that of the wife, began and ended simultaneously.

Judkins cites an instance of a man who was sick in the morning while his wife was carrying a child.

This occurred during every pregnancy, and the man related that his own father was similarly affected while his mother was in the early months of pregnancy with him, showing an hereditary predisposition.
The perverted appetites and peculiar longings of pregnant women furnish curious matter for discussion.

From the earliest times there are many such records.


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