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HAMOPTYSIS. 
rife to pemeptyas panels » 1. By a mechanical rupture ef 
o 
as the laft, by Mr. Brown. e inflorefcence is clofe an 
level-topped, exactly as in the genus Corymbium. Filaments 
and anthers fhorter than in H. plani ln m. ‘This is the 
age fai whence the generic character was originally 
taken, as will appear be comparing that character with the 
above peal 3 differen 
4. Br. n. 4.——* Corymbs compound ; oa 
bieaches® Spend Braéteas Seong obtufe, membra 
Leaves nearly ches drical. wees vered by Mr. Ry. on 
the ct has coaft of New 
ica: Br. n. - Spikes elongated. a. 
Bali Aarne ”?_. Found P Mr. hene | in 
OL AMOP PTYSIS, or ae in Medicine, from 
tod. blood, and xzvv, I fpit, fignifies literally a /pitiing of 
ood. t 
be- 
«aufe, while the latter are pat 8 al parce: nor 
the effect of any dangerous condition of the beer haem 
tyfis is always an alarming affection ; being moft common 
either the 
confumption 
the or exciting caufe of 
confumption lungs ; and, th » has vi 
order of his nofological fyftem, Boe confi 
among secnattos, » {Clafs I Ord. 4-) But, 
as we have temas y reafons for be- 
i bese of the difeafe. See ConsuMprion. 
we reflec upon the ftru€ture of the lungs, and the 
ies ure ora the circulation throu them, the fi ee 
‘the difeafe will be far from oc g any furprife. 
veflels of the lungs are more numerous than thofe of 
any other part of the body of the fame bulk ; indeed thofe 
organs confift almoft mee of ae the ft of 
which, as they arife from heart, more immediately, 
than in any other — fabdivided into 0 vellels of the fmalleit 
fize ; and thefe veffels, fpread ou out near the in! 
farfeces of the beootiaat cavitow ee Saad ee 
texture, and covered by a tender 
Aaanwion ee we confider farther, the conftant alternate com- 
fevere coughing, fneezing, ey may underftand why a 
norrha >from the lungs is one of the moft frequent thit 
lent fhock, given to the whole 
, that Were’ ere three ways in which 
blood might efape from the vee ofthe ln gs, and give 
_the veffels from 
rnal violence, which, ac 
cordin: 
Aretzus an Galen, : was calléd pubecy or rupture: 2. ca 
IT 
which was termed daCpwois, erofions 3. ‘by 
tation of the extreme apertures oP the veffels, “which they 
called dsxoréuwossy anaftomofis, or opening of mouths. (See 
auf, 
els from an acrimony of Rad fluids, 
Areteus, de c et fignis morbor. acut. lib. ii. cap, 
Galen de fa a um, lib. vii. ca his divifion of 
the modifications of Ay ot isd was Be the refult of 
from it. ie an nhemoptyt arifing from the firft of f thee 
caufes may be eee they 
we 
con 
cure. But, 2dly. If the peter 
more difficult ; for ‘in this cafe,’? Areteus hie, 
“¢ an ulcer is reduced: ay a tie >  Hemo 
be known, it is added, 
as precé 
thorax ; if the blood 
hyp’ 
othetical. “Thefe preceding fideo pote. 
juitly intimate the danger of the hemoptyiis ; 
optyfis may 
d from this caufe, “if no « 
external force has been. Splled | ; if a long irritating cou 
h ; if fome pain has been felt in the infi of th 
be fpit out in fmall quantities, but 
almoft continually, or, at leaft, if it often returns.” ree 
the pra€tical inference from thefe ob — 's 
the exiftence of a corrofive acri 
found ; 
ood is he 
t fymptoms 
ee 
: a confiderable progrefs of difeafe in the lungs towards 
a cc confumption, of which the hemoptyfis 1 ‘ 
a fign and a confequence. oe gdly, a 
a dilatation of the mo 
blood from anaffomofis, 
veffels, was deemed far 
or 
Lee 4 
lefs dnagetbacs 3 becaufe the vellels, 
although dilated, were entire, and would contract ke it 
ieved, by their = oS ; 
the fame time healthy. 
by Aretzus to occur in — during a fu : 
y g pes 
catamenia, of which it 
that it was altogether fies from pain 
which occurred in the other two fpecies. 
although the inference of the 
This {pecies of hemoptyfi is wat 
$ vicarious : and 
ous hemoptyfis is in fome degree correct, 
tion of the blood being difcharged fimply rae 
the any 
cory ait exhalent arteries, without 
veflels, is altogether gratuitous. 
hin re correct and ufeful view of the v 
arieties of hee. 
mopty fis may be obtained if we lay alide ppt and 
confider the various conditions of t 
modifications appear, as well as the morbid jinte af he "ne 
ternal which diffeétion difcovers to 
in the part 
ar this cafe agai 
comparative fafety of a vicati- 
the fi 
h thefe 
us in confumptive dif 
which the ancients ‘had not the opportunities of 1 Sle 
gating. 
There are feveral obvious 
of conttitution 
culiarities 
-_ oe to predifpofe te —— poffeffing them 
of A g 
delicacy 
the occurrence neral ity 
habit, which is marked by & flender cake delicate 
fine com sane ser ofenefs of the mule 
parts, eae ae and. ow eae in which the vr 
fels of the | are Seuxlly — with thole of 
other parts o: ‘the Re co d 28 fuck 
tuting a particular ip to hemoptyis In 
a there is generally 
a 
