w. OF HEMORRHAGES. Sect. XXVII. r. u 



is is diminifhed, or a branch of them is become totally 

 paralytic. 



The former cf thefe cafes is known by the heat of the part, 

 and the general fever or inflammation that accompanies the haem- 

 orrhage. A haemorrhage from the nofe or from the lungs is 

 ibmetime:; a crifis of inflammatory difeafes, as of the hepatitis 

 and gout, and generally ceafes fpontaneoufly, when the veflels 

 are confideiably emptied. Sometimes the hemorrhage recurs 

 daily periods accompanying the hot fits of fever, and ceafing 

 in the cold fils, or in the intermiffions ; this is to be cured by re- 

 moving the febnle paroxyfms, which will be treated of in their 

 place. Otherwife it is cured by vene feci: ion, by the internal or 

 external preparations of lead, or by the application of cold, with 

 an nMtemious diet, and diluting liquids, like other inflammations. 

 t Which by inducing a quiefcence en thofe glandular parts, that 

 are affected, prevents a greater quantity of blood from being 

 protruded forwards, than the veins are capable of abforbing. 



?>lr. B had a hcemorrhage from his kidney, and parted 



with not lefs than a pint of blood a dzy (by conjecture) along 



with his urine for above a fortnight : venefections, mucilages, 



• Ifams, preparations of lead, the bark, alum, and dragon's blood, 



iates, with a large bliller on his loins, were feparately tried, in 

 large dofes, to no purpofe. He was then directed to bathe in a 

 cold fpring up to the middle of his body only, the upper part bc- 



~ covered, and the hemorrhage diminifhed at the firft, and 

 ceafed at the fecond immerfion. 



In this cafe the external capillaries were rendered quiefcent by 

 the coldnefs of the water, and thence a lefs quantity of blood 

 was circulated through them ; and the internal capillaries, or 

 other glands, became quiefcent from their irritative aflbciations 

 with the external ones ; and the haemorrhage was flopped a fuf- 

 ficient time for the ruptured vefTels to contract their apertures, 

 or for the blood in thofe apertures to coagulate. 



Mrs. K had a continued haemorrhage from her nofe 



for fome days ; the ruptured vefTel was not to be reached by plugs 

 up the noftrils, and the feniibility of her fauces was fuch that 

 nothing could be borne behind the uvula. After repeated vene- 

 fection, and other common applications, (he was directed to im- 

 merfc her whole head into a pad of water, which was made cold- 

 er by the addition of feveral handfuls of fait, and the haemorrhage 

 immediately ceafed, and returned no more ; but her pulfe con- 

 tinued hard, and (lie v/as ncccfiitated to lofe blood from the arm 

 the fucceeding day. 



Query, might not the cold bath inftantly flop haemorrhages 

 the lungs in inflammatory cafes : — for the {hortnefs of 



breath 



