* 

 Y'5 DISEASES Class I. i. 



np from the lungs is florid, becatife it hasjuft been expofed to the 

 influence of the air in itspafiage through the extremities of the 

 pulmonary anery ; it is frothy, from the admixture of air with it 

 in the bronchia. The patients frequently vomit at the fame time 

 from the difagreeable titillation of blood about the fauces ; and are 

 thence liable to believe, that the blood is ejected from the ftomach. 



Sometimes an hcemoptoe for feveral fucceflive days returns in 

 gouty perfons without danger, and feems to fupply the place of 

 the gouty paroxyfms. Is not the liver always difeafed previous 

 to the hrcmoptoe, as in feveral other hemorrhages ? See Clais 

 I. 2. I I o. 



TM. M. VenefecYion, a purge, a blifler, diluents, torpentla ; 

 and afterwards forbentia, as the bark, the acid of vitriol, and 

 opium. An emetic is faid to ftop a pulmonary haemorrhage, 

 which it may effect, as fieknefs decreafes the circulation, as is 

 very evident in the great (icknefs fometimes produced by too large 

 a d'ofe of digitalis purpurea. 



Dr. Rufh fays, a table-fpoonful or two of common fait isfuc- 

 cefsful in hsemoptoe ; this may be owing to its ftimuLitmg the 

 abforbent fyftems, both the lymphatic, and the venous. Should 

 the patient refpire air with lefs oxygen ? or be made fick by 

 whirling round in a chair fufpended by a rope ? One immer- 

 fion in cold water, or a fudden fprinkling all over with cold 

 water, would probably flop a pulmonary haemorrhage. See 

 Sea. XXVII. i. 



5. Hamorrhagia narlum. Epjjlaxls. Bleeding at the nofe in 

 elderly fubjects mod frequently attends thofe, whofe livers are 

 enlarged or inflamed by the too frequent ufe of fermented liquors. 



In boys it occurs perhaps fimply from redundancy of blood ; 

 and in young girls fometimes precedes the approach of the cata- 

 menia •, and then it fhews a difpofition contrary to chlorofis ; 

 which arifes from a deficiency of red blood. 



M. M. It is ftopped by plunging the head into cold water, 

 with powdered fait haftily diflblved in it ; or fometimes by lint 

 flrewed over with wheat flower put up the noflrils ; or by a folu- 

 tion of fteel in brandy applied to the veflel by means of lint. The 

 cure in other refpe£f s as in hsemoptoe ; when the bleeding recurs 

 at certain periods, after venefecf-ion, and evacuation by calomel, 

 and a blifter, the bark and fteel mud be given, as in intermittent 

 fevers. See SecYion XXVII. 1. 



The tincture of digitalis given in proper quantities, as 30 



drops from a two-ounce phial every fix hours for two or three or 



four dofes, is probably an efficacious medicine. See Dr. Ferri- 



ar s Treatife on Digitalis. He ftopped aclive hemorrhages by 



the exhibition of digitalis. 



GRDO. 



