Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases / [Edited, with a life of the author, by E. Darwin].

Charles Darwin

Date:: 1780

Credit: Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases / [Edited, with a life of the author, by E. Darwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$a<? fatal; and in another, the frothynefs of the fputum is enumerated as a fatal fign. [d) Some have paid much attention to the colour of the matter expedorated, as Hip¬ pocrates does, in the following paffages ; if, lays he, long alter the commencement of the D'-in of tlic bread:, the exnedorated matter i ‘ be yellow, or tawny, or mix’d, it is bad; if it is fimplvyeilow, it is alfo dangerous ; that which is green, is alfo bad ; hkewife fuch as is pile and frothy : but if it is quite black, it is moft {e) dangerous. And he deferibes the good Pus, ( /’) as white, fmooth, and uniform ; whilft Celfus, however, is of a contrary opinion to Hippocrates, and lays, Quanto magis miflos neque inter fe diduc- tos colores habet tanto deterius. Lib. 2. Cap 8. but every perfon, who has with any attention obferved the common terminations of a catarrh or coryza, will have feen almofl the whole of thefe fymptoms occur from the changes of the mucus. The black appear¬ ance feems to be the only unufual one, and that may probably ( if it is fo fatal as repre- lented ) be a fymptom of incipient gangrene ; tho' (^/) Coac. prreno. troj. Tom. T. p. 562. prx'iiot. Xm. y. Tom. I p. 458. (<?) Pip^not. XlIL y. Tom I. p, ^58. (p) i rx'diclor. Lib. z. Sect. 12. No. 2. Tom. I. p. 457.$