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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    times in the course of the year, and once amounted to half a pint. He can foretell its ap¬ pearance by the mucus being tinged with bloody and feels great oppression of the chest just before it is thrown up. I saw him a few days after the last attack, and ordered him the emetic of antimony and ipecacuanha, as in the preceding case; in this instance it operated very mildly, brought off a quantity of phlegm, but no blood : ordered him Extr. Thebaic, gr. j. o. n, Mist. Myrrh cum Ferro, b. d. Emp. Cantb. later sinistr. to eat meat for dinner, and drink half a pint of porter with his meal. I saw him a few days after this, improved in health and spirits, but rather flushed and heated, owing, as 1 supposed, to the bowels being costive; advised magnes* % vitriol. 1^, to be taken immediately, and after two or three stools, a repetition of the same medicines. Ten days or thereabouts after this, he fancied the mucus from the trachaea was a little tinged, and being convinced that vomit¬ ing was calculated to improve his general health, however unnecessary it might be as a preven¬ tive to the Haemoptysis, I ordered him to repeat , D ' the