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fpoonful ; and return at firfl periodically, as about once a 

 month ; and are lets dangerous in the female than in the male 

 fex ; as in the former they are often relieved by the natural pe- 

 riods of the menfes. Many of Lhefe patients are attacked with 

 this pulmonary haemorrhage in their firft deep ; becaufe in fee- 

 ble peOple the power of volition is neceflary, befides that of irri- 

 tation, to carry on refpiration perfectly ; but, as volition is fuf- 

 pended during deep, a part of the blood is delayed in the vef- 

 fels of the lungs, and in confequence effufed, and the patient 

 awakes from the difagreeable fenfation. See Clafs I. 2. 1. 3- 

 II. 1. 6. 6. III. 2. 1. 10. and Sea. XXVII. 2. 



M. M. "Wake the patient every two or three hours by an 

 alarum clock. Give half a grain of opium at going to bed, or 

 twice a day. Onions, garlic, flight chalybeates. IrTues. Leeches 

 applied once a fortnight or month to the hemorrhoidal veins to 

 produce a new habit. Emetics after each period of hsemoptoe, 

 to promote expectoration, and diilodge any eifufed blood, which 

 might by remaining in the lungs produce ulcers by its putridity. 

 A hard bed, to prevent too found fleep. A periodical emetic or 

 cathartic once a fortnight. 



10. Palpitatio cordis. The palpitation of the heart frequently 

 attends the hsemoptoe above mentioned ; and confifts in an in- 

 effectual exertion of the heart to pufh forwards its contents in 

 due time, and with due force. The remote caufe is frequently 

 fome impediment to the general circulation 5 as the torpor of 

 the capillaries in cold paroxyfms of fever, or great adhefions of 

 the lungs. At other times it arifes from the debility of the action 

 of the heart owing to the deficient fenforial power of irritation 

 or of aflociation, as at the approach of death. 



In both thefe cafes of weak exertion the heart feels large to the 

 touch, as it does not completely empty itfelf at each contraction -, 

 and on that account contracts more frequently, as deicribed in 

 Sect. XXXII. 2. 2. Another kind of palpitation may fometimes 

 arife from the retrograde motions of the heart, as in fear* See 

 Clafs I. 3. 1. 2. and IV. 3. 1. 6. 



11. Menorrhagia. Continued flow of the catamenia. The 

 monthly eirufion of blood from the uterus or vagina is owin^ to 

 a torpor of the veins of thcfe membranes in confequence of the 

 defect of venereal ftirnulus ; and in this refpect refembJes the 

 mucus difcharged in the periodical venereal orgafm of the female 

 quadrupeds, which are fecluded from the males. The menor- 

 rhagia, or continued flow of this difeharge, is owing to a con- 

 tinued defect of the venous abforption of the membranes of the 

 uterus or vagina. See Clafs IV. 2. 4. 7. 



M. M. Venefection in fmall quantity. A cathartic. Then 

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