Practice of physic : wherein is attempted a concise exposition of the characters, symptoms, causes of diseases, and method of cure ; with formulae, in which such new articles are introduced as seem, from trial, to be valuable additions to the materia medica ; with a copious index of diseases and medicines ; the whole intended for the assistance of the young practitioner / by Richard Temple.

  • Temple, Richard, 1759-1826.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Practice of physic : wherein is attempted a concise exposition of the characters, symptoms, causes of diseases, and method of cure ; with formulae, in which such new articles are introduced as seem, from trial, to be valuable additions to the materia medica ; with a copious index of diseases and medicines ; the whole intended for the assistance of the young practitioner / by Richard Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «» * CLASS L—F E B’R I L E DISEASES. 127 CHAP. III. ' ^ » Of H.ffiMOPTYSIS, or H^morrhagy from the Lungs. , ■'i'? i' 'char ACT* E,k.' , Genarum rubor;. moleftlse aut doloris, et aliquaii- do caloris, in pedtoreTenfiis j dylpnoea, titillatio fau- cium; tufTjs, aut tuflicul^, fanguinem floridum, • * * ' t 1 ■ ■ • fepe fpiimofum rejiciens; ■ f ' 'T: SYMPTOMS, r; '• ,-?j It is preceded by a lenfe of weight and anxiety in the cheft, uneafinefs in . fefpiration, ,pain in forne part of the thorax, and irritation about the larynx, inducing a cough, which brings up fome frothy florid blood, and fometimes ficknefs and vomiting from the blood irritating the fauces, or getting down into the ftomach' in fwallowing. It varies in the time of its duration, and In the quantity of blood thrown up. ' \ The predlfpofing caufes are, A certain age, viz. from fixteen to thirty-five; narrqwnefs' of the cheft, with prominent fnoulders; fanguine temperament j a delicate flcnder form, with a long neck; great fenfibility and irritability; fupprefTion of frequent epifta'xis, or other habitual haemorrhage, and the lofs of a limb by amputatbn. The other remote caufes are the fame .as thofc enumerated p. 124; to .which may Be added what will excite,a violent refpiration. DIAGNOSIS.