Medical dissertations on hemoptysis or the spitting of blood, and on suppuration : which obtained the Boylston premiums for the years 1818 & 1820 / by John Ware, M.D.

  • Ware, John, 1795-1864.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Medical dissertations on hemoptysis or the spitting of blood, and on suppuration : which obtained the Boylston premiums for the years 1818 & 1820 / by John Ware, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON HEMOPTYSIS. Hemoptysis signifies literally, a spitting of blood, being compounded of the Greek words coifta, blood, and nrvca, I spit; but does not embrace, as commonly em- ployed, every case in which the blood is spit from the mouth. Blood may pass from the mouth in con- sequence of bleeding from the nose, the fauces, throat or stomach, and be spit out as in Hemoptysis. But the term is restricted to those cases in which the hemorrhage is from the lungs, and embraces diseases of much more consequence and danger than the others which have this symptom in common. Scarce- ly any one disease excites so much alarm in the mind of a patient, or those of his friends, as pulmonary hemorrhage ; and this not on account of any present and urgent danger which is to be apprehended on its first attack, but from the terrible nature of that disease of which it is so often the precursor. Phthi- sis Pulmonalis so seldom goes through its course without the appearance of some blood from the lungs, that we are apt to look on Consumption as the inev- itable consequence of Hemoptysis, and hence the terror which is almost universally excited by its ex- istence. And when it is reflected, that almost the only chance for combating Phthisis successfully, is