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blood from the cheeks and the surface of the abdomen in the form of 

 perspiration. The blood exuded in drops, and tinged the linen. This 

 bloody perspiration took place whenever the hysteric paroxysm lasted 

 a considerable time. 



J. C. Schilling relates the case of a boy, twelve years of age, who 

 was relieved from a severe comatose and convulsive disorder by a 

 bloody sweat which broke out August 2, 1747. 



The following note on this subject is from Dr. Schneider, a cele- 

 brated German physician : He mentions having been once summoned 

 to a healthy man, fifty years of age, who, for a period of twelve 

 months in succession, had traveled on foot ; during the journey he 

 had perspired much in his feet ; and, on examining them at the end of 

 it, they were found covered as high as the ankles with a sanguineous 

 perspiration, which had also soaked into and stained his stockings. 

 He quotes, among others, the following remarkable case from Paulini : 

 While surgeon on board a vessel, a violent storm arose, and threatened 

 immediate destruction to all. One of the sailors, a Dane, thirty years 

 of age, with fair complexion and light hair, was so terrified that he 

 fell speechless on the deck. On going to him, Paulini observed large 

 drops of perspiration of a bright-red color on his face. At first, he 

 imagined the blood came from the nose, or that the man had in- 

 jured himself by falling ; but, on wiping off the red drops from his 

 face, he was astonished to see fresh ones start up in their place. 

 The colored perspiration oozed out from different parts of the fore- 

 head, cheeks, and chin ; but was not confined to these parts, for, on 

 opening his dress, he found it formed on the neck and chest. On 

 wiping and carefully examining the skin, he distinctly observed the 

 red fluid exuding from the openings of the sweat-ducts. So deeply 

 stained was the fluid that, on taking hold of the handkerchief with 

 which it was wiped off, the fingers were made quite bloody. As the 

 bloody perspiration ceased, the man's speech returned ; and when the 

 storm passed over he recovered, and remained quite well during the 

 rest of the voyage. 



Erasmus Wilson, in his work on " Diseases of the Skin," mentions 

 two cases which had come under his own observation, and refers to 

 three others. M. Du Gard has recorded the case of a child three 

 months old that was taken with bleeding at the nose and ears, and on 

 the hinder part of the head, which lasted for three days, and after- 

 ward the nose and ears ceased bleeding, but still* the blood-like sweat 

 came from the head. Three days before the death of the child, which 

 happened the sixth day after it began to bleed, the blood came more 

 violently from its head, and streamed out to some distance. It also 

 bled on the shoulders and at the waist ; and for three days at the 

 toes, at the bend of its arms, at the joints of the fingers, and at the 

 finger-ends. 



Dr. John Mason Good remarks that ephidrosis cruenta, which he 



