RT Journal
A1 Kerman EF
T1 DRamamine® for nausea of electric shock and migraine
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD October 15
VO 141
IS 7
SP 478
OP 478
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02910070050022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910070050022
AB To the Editor:— 
    Within the past two months I have successfully used dramamine® (beta-dimethylaminoethyl benzohydryl ether 8-chlorotheophyllinate) in two conditions in which, to the best of my knowledge, success has not yet been reported. The results obtained have been striking.Many patients awaken after electroshock therapy with feelings of nausea. Vomiting occurs in some of these cases. The usual medication, such as antispasmodic or hyoscine therapy, has not relieved them of this discomfort. When this gastrointestinal disturbance occurred in the past one could only tell the patient that in time the discomfort would disappear.Premedication with dramamine,® I believed, might prove effective in the prevention of this symptom. I have limited its use to those patients who have complained of nausea or who have vomited after one or more treatments. One of the patients to whom I gave this drug had received forty treatments and had vomited regularly each time.