HAM 
es Sonia condition of the 
b it that — ee ie 
organs 4 s a mark of its putre- 
, which is commonl 
See Ha rr fe HEA. 
of the urine, which is coloured by the red 
juices of fome particular fruit, as the ficus opuntiz, has 
en rife to a fpecies in the catalogue of Sauvages, by a 
Fee of foleci{m called Hematuria deceptiva. The fame ob- 
fervation is applicable to his H. fpuria, and H. Jateritia, in 
both of which there is no blood in the thie ; but this fluid 
ig of a deep red colour, fo as to give a en of its being 
tinged with blood. This occurs in fome difeafes, and it is 
important in many cafes to determine, whether the red co- 
lour of the urine be from blood refent in it, or from a 
fuperabundance or altered iia of the falts and oils, 
ar atk a parts of the urine. According to Dr 
sates my cotahistly be decided by the fol- 
ws onion 
When an sorifideratit quantity of blood is voided with 
the urine, there is always a portion of it depofited at the 
bottom of the veffel ; and in fuch a cafe, there will be no 
Ly oe ee onl 
ears; and when the blood, chat. ag be up 
ae pet, is diffolved or diffufed, and therefore entirely fuf- 
. pend e uri goes isc may 
_— 
when it is re- 
Aigh-co: toured urine, Se blood, upon cooli 
mainin 
re 
ge and if bloody urine makes a — of 
pet of its }blood in, this way, the difference may be dif- 
by heating the urine, in which cafe the KioPary 
will be re-diffolved, which will not happen to any 
cae of blood. Laitly, we know no ftate of urine 
abe a) which fhews any portion of it coagulable 
a 
‘fufed in urine is ftill coagulable in 
.telt, therefore, the prefence of bl 
‘monly afcertained. Cullen, Firit Fie: par. 10 
af EMIONIUM, in Botany, a name by which iofcori- 
= a heat ; and ag) this 
n urine may be com- 
des calls t mn. 
HEMI’ Seon in Writings 9, ‘the Ancients, a 
apparel bi ed on both eet Others call 
ita af t kind. of handkerchie to wipe ‘off fwéa {wea ; but Galen 
mer tye to fome pala es of Hippocrates, “where the word 
feems plainly to be ufed in that fenfe ; Tees of the ancients 
have alfo ufed it exeAlly in the fa 
HEMOCERCHNUS, of = Mead. tad capes 
of the throat ee teal by ton 
ilo goes A = Medicine, a term 4 e of the 
rat 
“en fuel bo pitting of blood, attended with a rattling 
e-and fauces N 
HEMODIA, a ftupor of a a caufed by, auftere ° 
and acid fubftances. 
HEMODORACEA, in Bat 
re one of the genera w 
t Sips ol gece tie “ Perianth 
as gives it the followin 
(tie corolla) fuperior, rarely iro, ia in cs deep feg- 
- ‘ftamens 
el, almoft ‘always ebbits a aie d 
heat equal ‘a that of ba water ; but blood dif- - 
“black as ink in 
H & M 
ments. Stamens inferted into the fame, fix or three, in the 
latter cafe rit se ite to its inner fegments ; anthers in front. 
ermen ne, two, or many feeds in each cell; ftyle 
fimple ; ftigma undivided. Pirkiep capfular, moftly 
ular, rarely without valves, and fomewhat catkin-li 
Seeds ag? definite and peltate, or indefinite. 
equita 
val- 
tw < 
a 
5 a 
Mg or 
milar.—To 
this belongs Dilatris, Lanaria, Wachendorfia, and Michaux’s 
Heritiera.  Xiphidium remains ’ doubtful, Mr. Br 
never feen i its ruit. 
tae rau ies aa blood, 
becaufe of the a red colour of the whole he 
ame is given by Theophraftus to a fort of 
Orobanche ; what precife fpeci@s canno t be 
Some eee would have the ne CLL adepov, from 
Bepucy the /kin.—S Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 213. Vahl. 
imme 
° 
Enum. v. 2. 179. rdw. Prod. Noy. Holl. v. 1. 299.— 
ifs and order, Triandria a tas Nat. Ord. Sridibus 
afines Juil. Hemodoracee, Brow 
po! Cal. none, lel thie corolla be taken for 
fame hat 
of two cathe, "baring gpleainey in front. 
inferior, turbinate; jityle thread-fhaped, longer than the 
mens ; {tigma capitate. Peric. Capfule -fuperior, 
three-lobed, three-celled three heart-fhaped valves, 
the partitions formed by their centres. 
‘cell, peltate, depreffed, thin, opaque, with a 
branous border. 
Eff, Ch. Petals fis, fuperior ; the three inne 
bearing the ftamens. Stigma ma capitate. Capfule hal tat bege- 
rior, of three cells, Seeds two in each ceil, peltate, bor- 
dered. 
A genus of New Holland, herbaceous, perennial, fmooth 
plants, remarkable ie es. fcarlet colour, which turns as 
n informs us the roots — 
confilt of cluttered { ; 
ayy earyidhon, aah : Need ig he 
y 3 corymbo rarely ipl in ir upper. part. 
Leaves fimple, theathing, alternate, erect, either flat or 
fomewhat cylindrical. 
1. H. coccineum. Bro n. 1.—Corymbs compound. 
Leaves flat. Three aaa cia obtufe, -about- half. as 
i . d by Mr. Brown in the tropi 
‘Br. 
tetany branches. Lea r petals. 
the . tamens tou, ter bafe. —Native = 
ral or inferior ones rifing | cae 
Anthers lon, a C les large. 
pe ea \ sabe oe 
drical. Tahar petals longett, Reaiog the en, 99 
