100 On a Case of Hemorrhage. 



NOTE BY THE EDITOR. 



In my large employment of the sugar of lead, for 

 several years, I have very generally combined with it 

 a portion of opium. I have always inculcated this 

 practice, in my lectures on the internal use of the pre- 

 parations of lead. I cannot but repose much confidence 

 in the usefulness of the combination; but I am fully 

 persuaded, that the preparations of lead, without opium, 

 may be given in large doses, with entire safety, and 

 with the happiest effects, in various diseases, particu- 

 larly in hemorrhages of the prima 'Dice and uterus. — In 

 a case of Melaena, which lately came under my notice, 

 in which the patient discharged, in the course of twen- 

 ty-four hours, at least eighty ounces of blood, I pre- 

 scribed the sugar of lead, in combination with opium 

 and ipecacuanha. Tothe useof these medicines (doubt- 

 less, the \t,x<\ principally J I cannot but ascribe the reco- 

 very of my patient. I am inclined to think, that the 

 ipecacuanha was an useful addition, not merely from its 

 well-known good effects in hemorrhages* (to which I 

 can myself bear testimony), but likewise by virtue of 

 its operation upon the skin. 



* See the writings of Barbeirac, Gianella, Dahlbcrg, and other 

 able physicians. 



