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fpoonful ; and return at fir (I periodically, as about once a 

 month ; and are lefs dangerous in the female than in the male 

 fox ; as in the former they are often relieved by the natural pe- 

 riods of the menfcs. Many of thefe patients are attacked with 

 this pulmonary haemorrhage in their nrft deep ; becaufc in 

 ble people the power of volition is neceiiary, befides that 01" 

 tation, to carry on refpiration perfectly , but, as volition is iul- 

 pended during fleep, a part of the blood is delayed in the 

 fels of the lungs, and in conlequence effufed, and the pa: 

 awakes from the diiagreeable fenfation. See Clais I. 2. i. 3. 

 II. 1.6.6. III. 2. i. 10. and Sea. XXVII. 2. 



M. M. Wake the patient every two or three hours by an 

 alarum clock. Give half a grain of opium at going to bed, or 

 twice a day. Onions, garlic, flight chalybeates. Ifiues. Lee 

 applied once a fortnight or month to the hemorrlicidal vein:? to 

 pro'duce a new habit. Emetrcs after each period of hsemoptoe, 

 to promote expectoration, and difiodge any effufed blood, which 

 might by remaining in the lungs produce ulcers by its putridity. 

 A hard bed, to prevent too found fleep. A periodical emetic or 

 cathartic once a fortnight. 



10. Pdlpitatio cordls. The palpitation of the heart frequently 

 attends the hx map toe above mentioned ; and conilils in an in- 

 effectual exertion of the heart to pufh forwards its contents in 

 due time, and with due force. The remote caufe is iVcquently 

 ibme impediment to the general circulation ; as the torpor of 

 the capillaries in cold paroxyfms of fever, or great adhehons oi" 

 the lungs. At other times it -.-in the debility of the action 



of the heart owing to the deficient icmbrial power ^L irnLaiion 

 or of affociation, as at the approach of death. 



In both thefe cai i the heart feels large to the 



touch, as it does not completely empty itfelf at each contraction j 

 and on that account contracts more frequently, as defcribed in 

 Sect. XXXII. 2. 2. Another kind of palpitation may fome. 

 arife from the retrograde motions oi" the heart, as in fear. SLV 

 Clafsl, 3. i. 2. and IV. 3. i. 6. 



n. Menorrhagia. Continued flow of the catamenia. Ths 

 monthly effufion of blood from the uterus or vagina is owin^ to 

 a torpor of th~ f thofe membranes in coniequci, 



defecl; of venereal ftimulus -, and in this refpect refeai ^ 

 mucus difcharged in the periodical venereal orgaftn - nale? 



quadrupeds, which are fecluded from the males. Tiic menor* 

 rhagia, or continued flow of this difcharge, is owing to a con- 

 tinued defecl: of the venous abforption of the membranes of the 

 uterus or vagina. See Clafs IV. 2. 4. 7. 



M. M. Vencficliou in (mall cuant-tv. A cathartic. Then 



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