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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    ordered to drink asses milk, claret, and meat for dinner, under which plan he gathered strength and flesh ; but going afterwards to Paris, and the bleeding returning, “ to check the discharge, the physicians ordered small and repeated bleed¬ ings with pectoral drinks, which had no other effect but to weaken him* and in a short time he died.” This case is very instructive, for besides shewing the advantages of emetics, it proves the good effects of supporting the strength of the system, and the injury done by bleeding. The ninth case related hy this author is still more interesting, and therefore I shall give it without abridgment in his own words. »' “ A man of about twenty-seven or twenty- eight years of age, was in the year 1732, after a fever seized with spitting of blood, which con¬ tinued on him about two years; during this time he had a cough, his spittle was tinged with blood and of a brick colour, and upon • * ^ going out into the cold,* or using any vio- * It may not be impertinent to make a remark on this part of the history, “ going out into the cold,” brought it on. Now exposure to the cold, would be the best method of checking it, if it were produced by arterial action. lent