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through them, and is made a bloody sweat) ; while Lucan thus de- 

 scribes it : 



"... Sic omnia membra 



Emisero simul rutilum pro sanguine virus. 

 Sanguis erant lacrymae ; quacumque foramina novit 

 Humor, ab his largus manat cruor ; ora redundant, 

 Et patulae nares ; sudor rubet; omnia plenis 

 Membra fluunt venis ; totum est pro vuhiere corpus." 



(Thus all the limbs together emitted a red humor the same as 

 blood. The tears were blood ; aud whatever openings the humor 

 knew, from them flows copious bleeding ; the mouth and the distended 

 nostrils overflow ; the sweat is red ; the veins flow full in all the 

 limbs ; the whole body is as if it were a wound.) 



The detestable Charles IX of France sank under this disorder, 

 thus described by Mezeray (" Histoire de France," vol. iii, p. 306) : " La 

 nature fit d'etranges efforts pendant les deux derni5res semaines de la 

 vie de la roi. II s'agitait et se remuait sans cesse ; le sang lui rejal- 

 liait par les pores et partout les conduits de son corps. Apres avoir 

 long-temps suffert, il toraba dans une extreme faibleur et rendit I'ame." 

 (Nature made strange efforts during the last two weeks of the life of 

 the king. He was in constant agitation and motion ; the blood gushed 

 out from his pores and from all the conduits of his body. After having 

 suffered a long time, he fell into an extreme weakness and gave up his 

 soul.) The same historian relates the case of the governor of a town 

 taken by storm, who was condemned to die, and was seized with a pro- 

 fuse sweatinar of blood the moment he beheld the scaffold. Lombard 

 mentions a general who was affected in a similar manner on losing a 

 battle. The same writer tells us of "a nun who was so terrified when 

 falling into the hands of ruthless banditti that blood oozed from every 

 pore." (Schenck, apparently referring to the same case, says that 

 she died of the haemorrhage, in the sight of her assailants.) 



Henry ab Heer records the case of a man who not only labored 

 under bloody sweat, but small worms also accompanied the bloody 

 secretion. These were undoubtedly vermicular or worm-like coagula, 

 or clots, formed in the sweat-ducts. 



In the memoirs of the Society of Arts of Haarlem we read of the 

 case of a sailor, who, falling down during a storm, was raised from 

 the deck streaming with blood. At first it was supposed that he had 

 been wounded, but on close examination the blood was found to flow 

 from the surface of the body. 



Fabricius de Hilden mentions a case that came under the observa- 

 tion of his friend Sporlinus, a physician of Bale : the patient was a 

 child twelve years of age, who never drank anything but water ; having 

 gone out into the fields to bring home his father's flocks, he stopped 

 upon the road, and, contrary to habit, drank freely of white wine. 

 He shortly after was seized with fever. His gums first began to 



