Dramamine as an Adjuvant Measure in Psychogenic Vomiting
- 13 December 1951
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 245 (24) , 934
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195112132452404
Abstract
DRAMAMINE has been reported by various investigators to be efficacious in alleviating the nausea and vomiting of motion sickness1 after operative procedures,2 of aureomycin therapy,3 after electric shock,4 in radiation sickness5 and in hyperemesis gravidarum.6 Review of the literature reveals no reports on its use in psychogenic vomiting on the basis of a conversion hysteria in which no labyrinthine or other organic disease was present.Case ReportA 30-year-old unmarried man was admitted to this hospital in April, 1951, on the Neuropsychiatric Service, complaining of repeated attacks of nausea and vomiting during the previous 2 years and a weight loss . . .Keywords
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