UTERUS AND STOMACH.

In no specialty do we hear so much of reflex symptoms and reflex neuroses as in gynecology. Those of gastric origin are an especially prolific source of local gynecologic treatment and, as a recent article by Reder1indicates, of operative interference also. From a purely clinical standpoint, hardly any two abdominal organs stand in closer relationship than the stomach and the uterus. Thus we have the nausea and loss of appetite during menstruation, the vomiting and craving for certain special foods during pregnancy, the various gastric disturbances accompanying the menopause and the frequent association of gastric and gynecologic diseases. This has led many writers to believe that there must be some special nervous connection between these two organs. In presenting this subject, my motive is to show once more how much is hypothesis and how little is fact in this field of study. I was also able to collect