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fome length, we have only a few words to add relative to 
Zome other modifications of the difeafe, which. depe ad w 
more ferious diforder of the itomach itfelf, of ae organs, 
or of the fyftem at lar rge Succefs in the cure of thefe 
varieties of bloody vomiting is doubtful in the extreme, and 
very difficult to be attained 5 for the conititution itfelf is 
ns 8 organic derangements of the ftomach, which are ac- 
cottiganied by vomiting r of blood, are thofe arifing from 
wounds or other mechgnicaki injury to its ftructure, which 
are generally {peedily fatal.. .Thefe are included in. the 
fecond fpecies of Sauvages, gene ae saiventinns to andr 
which may be added the ninth, or H. - ar 7" 
regards its origin from corrolive. ifon ye and the 
fourth, or ge hyrudines in faces the internal coat of the 
fLomach has been wounded by a leech, fw wenenee drinking 
ditch water. {Riverius, Cent. iv. Obf. 26.) In. cancer 
and ebes of the ftomach a blackith matter, refembling T 
the grounds of coffee, is commonly: ejected. by vomiting ; 
but as this is not in a fluid ftate it can fearcely be denominated 
“Morbid enlargements of the neighbouring vifcera, the 
pancreas, and liver, (fee Sauvages, fpec. 6, 7, and 
ons of the aorta, ({pecies 2.) and compreflion 
(fpec. 11.) have all been afligned as occafional 
caules, of he hamatemefis. the records of phyfic, Dr. 
Cullen obferves, there are many inftances of vomitings of 
were accompanied with a tu leen, 
-comprefled the vas breve, and thereby prevented 
the return of venous blood from the ftomach. It is alfo 
that an obftruction of the liver, Soar the _ 
and thereby occafion a vomitin 
— . of this are neither fo fre quent 1 nor - fo clearly 
se the black and grumous b 
thrown out by vomiting, as well as difcharged downwards, 
pie’ as originating in a venous plethora in the 
cana, Soametied with ese valcere we 
ome are — or three ccadibiinn of the conftitution in 
Which hamatemefis to occr 
deemed a hopelefs fymptom. ‘The firft of thefe is the 
laf ea. rh acute fevers, in which fpontaneous at ee 
different parts of the oda « and is ufually 
Confidered as the moft decided fymptom of the cy 
putrefcency of the difeafe. In typhus, ne 
= b 
a, hemorrhea petechi rples, 
izmir ape ca intr ices rary In the! ighett 
membrane is 
wean eabetenesl where the omni ‘or invefting 
d hemorrhage from 
‘the ferotum, or of the fj 
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defirous of being fent out. She vomited feveral pounds of 
blood, for feveral days even in the prefence of the phyfician: 
but it was at length difcovered that the fwallowed bullock’s 
blood, which was clandettinely sos to her Saily, (Sau- 
ong the Ancients, for a 
fort of reddith garon, made of the 3 inteftines and blood of 
filhes macerated in falt. 
HAEMATITES, from osx, bod, in Natural Hiflory, 
the blood, ‘one ss a kind of ruddy mineral fubftance ; thus 
3 el n account of its 7 dry curdled b 
or-of its sepia rai _ oe od. 
liny reckons five kind ny dee viz. the E Bibi 
‘odamas, the Arabicy ma aren or wailitea; and the /chiflos 3 
befides that commonly c in his time the magnes hematites, 
from the property it hath of attracting iron. 
Thefe five forts differ chiefly in point of : the 
beft, according to Diofeorides, 1s that which is reeves hard; 
black, and fmooth, without either gritty parts, or vein 
That a Ad ufed by the ae is factitious, being 
wile of Armenian bole, and other-dru 
The common native, or the fof ‘Knell ‘comes from 
‘pt, Bohemia, &c. This is of various figures ; {pherical, 
iemtidighaticel: ly or ce fed of {mall 
‘ramids, the apices of which appear, sie a tranfverfe fection, 
in the centre. It a large of iron; but the 
iron is obtained with fuch difficulty, rant is of fo bad a 
aeres mae this ore is not commonly {melted. This ftone, 
when expofed to a sare tely ftrong fire, falls b 
into Seles ; and in this ftate is — by the magnet, and 
gives out its iron to aci ivers U es in icine ; 
being held cooling and ariagen 5 and, in that quality, pre- 
feribed in hemorrhages and uterine obftrudtions, It is given 
in fubftance, in form of a fine powder, from one fcruple 
to three or four, for a dofe. It is alfo ufed in diftemperatures 
of the pares ; but pure iron, or the i I of iron, muft 
he fame in 
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pe : 
The term. is vcduieeel from the Greek atjrz, blood, and xiiAny 
a tumour. 
In this article we have little more to do than infert Mr. 
Pott’s account of the difeafe, of which no sei nor an 
later author has treated with equal ability. t 
the i of making diftinGtions jons in ths 
- them it cannot be properly under- 
¥ prognofis is apt to be 
difeafe, proper! called 
asimnonlbeg is wf ere em atl mani which have their feat 
within the tunica vaginalis teftis ; one within the albuginea 5 
and the fourth in the*tunica or common cellular 
wou! 
i neuirisie fein out. sie 9 Sie 
Soca | eae -plafter being 
applied, the blood c 
