onths 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. The belief has long been a
superstition in parts of Great Britain, descending to America, and even
exists at the present day. Sir Francis Bacon has written on this
subject, the substance of his argument being that certain loving
husbands so sympathize with their pregnant wives that they suffer
morning-sickness in their own person. No less an authority than S. Weir
Mitchell called attention to the interesting subject of sympathetic
vomiting in the husband in his lectures on nervous maladies some years
ago. He also quotes the following case associated with pseudocyesis:--

"A woman had given birth to two female children. Some years passed and
her desire for a boy was ungratified. Then she missed her flow once,
and had thrice after this, as always took place with her when pregnant,
a very small but regular loss. At the second month morning-vomiting
came on as usual with her. Meanwhile she became very fat, and as the
growth was largely, in fact excessively, abdominal, she became easily
sure of her condition. She was not my patient, but her husband
consulted me as to his own morning-sickness, which came on with the
first occurrence of this sign in his wife, as had been the case twice
before in her former pregnancies. I advised him to leave home, and this
proved effectual. I learned later that the woman continued to gain
flesh and be sick every morning until the seventh month. Then
menstruation returned, an examination was made, and when sure that
there was no possibility of her being pregnant she began to lose flesh,
and within a few months regained her usual size."

Hamill reports an instance of morning-sickness in a husband two weeks
after the appearance of menstruation in the wife for t