H E M’ 
taining half 4 xeftes, The* xeftes sansa two cote. 
and therefore the hemixefton was a cot 
HEMLOCK, in Botany. See Chee: and tose: 
Hemiocx, in the Materia Medica. See Cicuta. 
Hemuiock, Great Broad-leaved Baflard. See Ligusti- 
cUM. 
Hemuock, Lefer. 
Hemiock, Water. 
HEMLOCK, op-wort. See OENANT 
Hemiock Jake, in Geograph hy, a ‘mall, ae of America, 
in the flate of New York, in neffee county, 12 miles 
long and one broad ; 30 miles 5. of ‘ide Ontario. 
HEMMAYU, a tows of Bavaria, ithe principality of, 
Néuburg ; 12 miles W. of Ratifbon. 
HEMMENDOREF, a@ town of Germany, in ue princi- 
— = Calenberg, fituated on the. Saale; 12 miles E. 
See —— 
See Cicur 
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HEMMINGFORD, WatrTer DE, in Biography, an 
Englifh chronicler of the 14th’century, whofe work extends 
from 1066 to 1303. He was an esate in Gifborough 
abbey, Yorkfhise, and died in 1347- 
HEMORRHAGE, or Hraronunacy, i in Surger. , 1s 
a fubjete of the higheft importance; the m 
feek the advice of o ro 
is moft eeieatly otherwife. 
@ is one thing proper to be done, and if the prac- 
iar does not do it expegtionly, his patient will die be- 
fore his eyes. Thus, t e life of a ee 5 SB mu be 
io to his ignorance eZ 
any eg Ss an un, 
What he does i is an error of i ai “and when his con- 
du& oe ys 
bea people i in ab oe in fur ical matters, ap they Eeienay 
thank and ard him, when he fhould be kicked, put in 
- ory, er hanged. Sometimes, however, his errors 
and ignorance {trike every bye-ftander ; he occafions, with 
his own knife, a smafile 6) bleeding, and does not know how 
to top it 5 perifhes under his - 
— before his confufion and hefitat 
: s his laft. On ; 
per method for utting a ftop to the hemorrhage, fo 
at bod ape time to time, till the patient has 
na more grad 5 
“ Hemorrhage (fays sine excellent writer) the otic neat 
tendant on on operative fu * a 
fentiment of horror, Bh aang this, pe many other ac- 
Counts, be confidered as one of the moft formidable nee 
nents to its improvement. It obfcures, retards and em- 
barraffes the progrefs of every operation, ee dread 
c le open conequenees ie the chi pale a @ 
of furface of a ftump, or from fome large 
Qo ger Sag he 
. retarded the improvement o urgery. 
HEM ‘ 
hemorrhage to be feared ; it is alfo one of the moft alarming 
angerous accidents which furgery is called upon to re- 
“Un ee wei a (obierves Morand) attache a’ 
terreur machinale, dont en- 
pig 
Vidée de perdre fon 
fant 
fo 
$ eri ce quelque hemorrhagie ; et da Ans les 
2 p- 
gS tales ‘of bleeding, the fitgeor feels himfelf fd oRioke 
: aa that to him it is truly an anxious feene. If the 
be flow and gradual, from fome extenfive furface, as 
fat a polypus of the nottrils, from the womb, fre ; 
fore, 
Bell remarks,) the furgeon is fent for Aisin hour to hour, he 
is called during the mght; he is made unhappy for weeks ; 
and, after repeated uncontrollable hemorrhages, he fees his 
eigicy expire. ut, um there be a g from 
e veflels cut in ae operation, or fronr an aneuri{m, or- 
a ome gre ound, the arteries of which cannot be 
difcovered, there is Hatt date danger of the patient expirin 
even in the furgeon’s hand’.. Let thofe who have ition 
the agitation of fuch fcenes, judge of tlie importance of the 
prefent fubject. The fear of hemorrhage is always upper+ 
moft in the mind of the young furgeon. ere this one dan= 
would go forward in his proféffon.almoit. 
without fear 
It is the ¢ fhing of the blood from the great arteries;. 
oo the eel of the pee beg hh our moft im- 
makes all the difference betwixt ope- 
g body and diffedting the dead. Thefe 
e the hands of the boldeft 
a laiting aictancioty on t ce ice sm 
It is really this accident of Feiptaihage: that has for ages 
rant of the ways of ttopping bleeding, 
cut out the moft trivial tumour, or they did fo with fear and: 
uncertainty. Such operations as we now perform rapidly and’ 
fafely with the bite, they executed flowly, or sated ety, 
with burning irons or ligatures. ventured to am 
tate a member, it was only by cuttin through the mribptified 
Patt and fo great was their dread of blood, that they 
ere afraid to . ae ie ving fiefh, John Bell’s Princi 
hoe. ‘ought o pole 8 an pets know ledge of tlie 
{iru and code of the blood-veffels, Have juit ideas of 
zie daaioes of the pdeertes and 
ss ire ts Ea intere ii 
ani ’ 
a men have lately brought to eile re 
in obfervations, however, 
firft proper. 
“When an artery ie pennded, the blood | is of a Drighe 
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