Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds.

  • Aretaeus, of Cappadocia.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    the person have been eating just before, for both^' blood and food are mixed togctlier in the same place, the eructations are frequent and offensive; if there bel ^ a considerable collection there is a sense of uneasiness and giddiness, the patients are relieved after vomiting,* ! but remain faint vrith a sense of burning fever all over the body, and a fixed pain in the stomach. From the trachea the blood is small in quantity and very florid, and is brought up with a cough, and if not raised the patients keep coughing, for there is a feeling of pain near the throat, or it may be a little higher up or lower do^vn ; the voice is hoarse and indistinct. If the expectoration come from the lung, especially from ulceration, it is brought up with a gush accompanied with much coughing, is of a florid hue, very frothy, and round in its shape, so that one sort of sputum is distinct from the other, and though in the same vessel there is a difference in what is brought from the chest, so that you might distinguish them placed in apposition as portions from the thorax, and might conclude that the pieces with the fleshy appearance were parts of the lung : a sense of weight on the chest, a feeling of lassitude, redness of the face, peculiarly attach to persons thus affected. But if the pain descend from the thorax to the fore and lower part of the sternum, it indicates the ruptured spot, the cough is incessant, though scarce- j ly anything is brought up, the blood is not very florid, is moderately thick and free from froth; but if the lung be sympathetically affected as it passes