A practical treatise on haemoptysis or spitting of blood : shewing the safety and efficacy of emetics, and the pernicious effect of blood-letting, in the treatment of that disease / by George Rees.

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on haemoptysis or spitting of blood : shewing the safety and efficacy of emetics, and the pernicious effect of blood-letting, in the treatment of that disease / by George Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Haematemesis are connected with Haemoptysis, and have been produced by the gradual and im¬ perceptible regurgitation of blood from the tra- chaea into the oesophagus. Haematemesis, as a primary disease, is rather a rare occurrence, and generally proceeds from a morbid condition of the spleen ; when it is connected with Haemopty¬ sis, it occasions very little difference in treatment of that disease. Haemoptysis geherally attacks- the young and the delicate, especially persons of a fair florid complexion, with a fine thin white skin, and those who are subject to perspire much' from the forehead and palms of the hands, these are constitutionally disposed to the complaint;, but accidental causes, such as a blow on the chest, playing on wind instruments, &c. may bring it on in those who have not the appear¬ ance of that disposition. When it first appears, it is generally in a small degree, the mucus secreted from the sur¬ face of the trachaea being tinged with blood. Persons liable to Haemoptysis are often sub¬ ject to an habitual dryness and huskiness in the throat; they frequently hem to clear the mucus^ that collects at the upper part of the trachaea, at that part against which we seem to strike when we