728 VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1743. 



sake of some evacuation, at each time. After tlie bleeding, he soon recovered 

 his strength, so as to do his business in the gardens; and continued very well 

 till the month of March 1730. About the middle of this month, he com- 

 plained of sleepiness, and a particular heaviness all over his body; which was 

 followed, in 3 days time, by a violent haemorrhage from the nose. This flux, 

 in spite of all means being tried, except venesection, continued 7 days, and 

 could never be totally stopped, all this time, for 1 hour together. He reco- 

 vered again in a very short time, and was able to work in the summer season, 

 without any complaints, till October following. Then the haemorrhage returned 

 again at the nose, as before, with all the same circumstances, and in defiance 

 of all endeavours, continued the period of ^ days. Thus it returned in like 

 manner of bleeding, by stools, in the middle of March 1731, and continued 

 to discharge this way great quantities of blood, in one motion, and sometimes 

 two motions every day for 7 days together, in opposition to the most efficacious 

 restringents. Also it made its regular return by vast profusions of blood from 

 the intestines, in the beginning of October following, to the end of the first 

 period of 7 days, without gripings, or any such uneasy sensations. Thus again 

 it kept as orderly returns about the vernal and autumnal equinoxes of the years 

 1732, 1733, with vast profusions of blood by stool, for the usual term of 7 

 days, agreeing in all circumstances with the preceding years. Likewise at, or 

 very near these two grand seasons, in the years 1734, 1735, this habitual 

 haemorrhage broke away by the kidneys and urinary passage; and still con- 

 stantly, for these 1 years, kept its old stated time of 7 days, without any other 

 variation. 



This young man was seized in Dec. 1735, with the small-pox, of the dis- 

 tinct kind, which produced such a change in his constitution, that he escaped 

 those periodical haemorrhages, or any other spontaneous equivalent evacuations, 

 for the two seasons of the year 1736; and remained in very good health till 

 Christmas following, being above 13 months free from any symptoms of his old 

 eruption. But, Dec. '27, without any previous notice of heaviness and sleepi- 

 ness, the haemorrhage returned by the urinary passages, but much more favour- 

 ably, and continued only 3 days. Again, on May the 13th following, 1737, 

 he then felt the previous warnings, and bled again by urine to the 20th of the 

 same month; with this difi^erence, that for 3 days the urine was only coffee- 

 coloured, but afterwards, for 4 days longer, every discharge resembled an effu- 

 sion of blood from a vein just opened. He presently recovered his strength, 

 even though the air was exceedingly warm at this time; and the Doctor saw him 

 5 months after, very robust and healthy, and free from all kinds of tendency to- 

 wards his old complaint. But he had always the appearance of too much 



