he last time. He
had daily attacks, and it was not until the failure of the next menses
that the woman had any other sign of pregnancy than her husband's
nausea. 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. Borellus cites an instance, and there are many others, of
pregnant women eating excrement with apparent relish. Tulpius, Sennert,
Langius, van Swieten, a Castro, and several others report depraved
appetites. Several writers have seen avidity for human flesh in such
females. Fournier knew a woman with an appetite for the blood of her
husband. She gently cut him while he lay asleep by her side and sucked
blood from the wounds--a modern "Succubus." Pare mentions the perverted
appetites of pregnant women, and says that they have been known to eat
plaster, ashes, dirt, charcoal, flour, salt, spices, to drink pure
vinegar, and to indulge in all forms of debauchery. Plot gives the case
of a woman who would gnaw and eat all the linen off her bed. Hufeland's
Journal records the history of a case of a woman of thirty-two, who had
been married ten years, who acquired a strong taste for charcoal, and
was ravenous for it. It seemed to cheer her and to cure a supposed
dyspepsia. She devoured enormous quantities, preferring hard-wood
charcoal. Bruyesinus speaks of a woman who had a most perverted
appetite for her own milk, and constantly drained her breasts;
Krafft-Ebing cites a similar case. Another case is that of a pregnant
woman who had a desire for hot and pungent articles of food, and who in
a short time devoured a pound of pepper. Scheidemantel cites a case in
which the perverted appetite, originating in pregnancy, became
permanent, but this is not the experience of most observers. T