4.2 DISEASES CLASS I. i. *. 5, 



.up from the lungs is florid, becaufe it has juft been expofed to the 

 influence of the air in its paiTage through the extremities of the 

 pulmonary artery , it is frothy, from the admixture of air with it 

 in the bronchia. The patients frequently vomit at the fame time 

 from the difagreeable titillatipn of blood aboutthe fauces ; and are 

 thence liable to believe, that the blood is ejected from the ftomach. 

 Sometimes an hsemoptoe for feveral fucceffive days returns in 

 gouty perfons without danger, and feems to fupply the place of 

 the gouty paroxyfms. Is not the liver always difeafed previous 

 to the hsmioptoe, as in feveral other haemorrhages ? See Clafs 



I. 2. I. 9. 



M. M. VenefecUow, a purge, a blifter, diluents, torpentia ; 

 and afterwards forbentia, as the bark, the acid of vitriol, and 

 opium. An emetic is faid to flop a pulmonary haemorrhage, 

 which it may efFel, as ficknefs decreafes the circulation, as is 

 very evident in the great ficknefs fometimes produced by too large 

 a dofe of digitalis purpurea. 



Dr. Rum fays, a table-fpponful or two of common fait is fuc- 

 cefsful in haemoptoe ; this may be owing to its ftimulating the 

 abforbent fyftems, both the lymphatic, and the venous. Should 

 the patient refpire air with lefs oxygen ? or be made fick by 

 whirling round in a chair fufpended by a rope ? One immer- 

 fion in cold water, or a fudden fprinkling all over with cold 

 water, would probably flop a pulmonary hcemprrhage. Sec 

 Sea. XXVII. i. 



5. H&morrhagia narium. Epiftaxis. Bleeding at the nofe in, 

 elderly fubjects moft frequently attends thofe, whofe livers are 

 enlarged or inflamed by the too frequent ufe of fermented liquors. 



In boys it occurs perhaps fimply from redundancy of blood ; 

 and in young girls fometimes precedes the approach of the cata- 

 jnenia ; and then it (hews a difpofition contrary to chlorofis ; 

 which arifes from a deficiency of red blood. 



M. M. It is flopped by plunging the head into cold water, 

 with powdered fait haftily diflblved in it ; or fometimes by lint 

 ftrewed over with wheat flower put up the noftrils ; or by a folu- 

 tion of fteel in brandy applied to the vefTel by means of lint. The 

 cure in other refpeclis as in hjemoptoe ; when the bleeding recurs 

 at certain periods, after venefecl:ion, and evacuation by calomel, 

 and a blifter, the bark and fteel muft be given, as in intermittent 

 fevers. See Sedion XXVII. i. 



The tindlure of digitalis given in proper quantities, as 30 

 drops from a two-ounce phial every fix hours for two or three or 

 four dofes, is probably an efficacious medicine. See Dr. Ferri- 

 ar's Treatife on Digitalis. He flopped ad~live haemorrhages by 

 the exhibition of digitalis, 



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