Hemorrhage from the lungs (Jiccmop-
tysis) may depend upon congestioii (over-
fulness of blood) of the lungs ; heart disease,
tubercular consumption, suppressed meiistrua-
tion, of which it may, occasionally, be an
alternative or substitute ; an injury, as a
broken rib, wound of the lung, etc. ; rupture
of an a?ie7crism of the ao7'ta .
Vomiting of Blood may be one of the
symptoms occurring in hyste7'-ical women ; or
it may result from tilcer, or ca7icer of the
stomach ; or it maj^ be (as above) substitutive
or vicarious of absent menstruation.
Uterine hemorrhage (other than the
natural monthly flow) may come from co7i-
gestio7i of the womb, or its 7ilceratio7i, or
ca7icer. During pregnancy it threatens mis-
carriage, or results from misplacement of the
placenta (after-birth).
Hemorrhage from the bowels may be con-
nected with piles (hemorrhoids), dysentety,
7tlceration of the bowels, cancer, ruptu7'c of
an abdomi7ial a7ieuris77i, typhoid, inala7'ial^
ox yell oiv fever, or vicairous 7ne7istruatio7i.
H.Ematurta (blood}^ urine) may follow
a mechanical injury, inJla))n7iation of the
kidneys, sto7ie in the bladder, or a l:)ad state
of things in cases oi sca7lct J'eve7\
Symptoms Connected with the Breathing
Organs.
Sixteen to eighteen times in a minute is
the ordinary rate of breathing while at rest,
in health, for a grown person. Xw fever it is
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almost always a good deal faster than this ;
often thirty, forty, or more respirations in a
minute. When a person is poisoned with
opium, the breathing becomes snoring, and
very slow, even only six times or less in a
minute in heavy narcotism. Apoplexy, and
pressure upon the brain from a piece of a
h'oken shdl, are also attended bj?" slow,
snoring respiration.
DiFFicuivTY OF Brkathing may be caus-
ed by irrespirable gases (as chlorine, etc.) in
the air ; obstruction in the air- tubes, as from
croup, asthma, or bronchitis ; disease of the
lungs or pleura, as in pneumonia, consump-
tion, or pleurisy ; disease of the heart or
aorta ; abdominal dropsy, pressing upwards.
Coughing, also, may have a variety of
causes, of the nature of which we may often
judge by its character. Thus it is, com-
monly, dry and tight, in early bronchitis ;
soft, deep, and loose, in advanced bronchitis ;
hacking, in the beginning of consumption ;
deep and distressing, in advanced consump-
tion ; short and sharp, in pneumonia ; hoarse
and barking, in an early stage of croup ;
whistling, in advanced membranous croup ;
paroxysmal (in spells) and whooping, in
whooping-cough ; dry and hollow, when
sympathetic or nervous.
BxPFCToRATiON is white, thin, and mu-
cous, in catarrh and early bronchitis ; yellow
and thick {purulent) in severe and protracted
bronchitis ; rusty, in the middle stage of
pneum^onia ; bloody, thick, and yellow, in de-
veloping co7isumptio7i (phthisis) ; in heavy,
round, small yellowish, lu7nps, in advanced
consumption ; putrid (rotten) , in gangrene
of the lung.
The Brkath is hot, during fever ; cold, in
the collapse of cholera. The odor of the
breath is seldom perfectly agreeable except
in a healthy child. Bad teeth and imperfect
digestion are common causes of unpleasant-
ness in it. It is very heavy at the com-
mencement of 2^ fever ; sour, during an attack
of indigestion ; rotten , in gangrene of the
lung.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Hemorrhage from the lungs (haemoptysis) may depend upon congestion (overfulness of blood) of the lungs ; heart disease, tubercular consumption, suppressed menstruation, of which it may, occasionally, be an alternative or substitute ; an injury, as a broken rib, wound of the lung, etc. ; rupture of an aneurism of the aorta .
Vomiting of Blood may be one of the symptoms occurring in hysterical women ; or it may result from ulcer, or cancer of the stomach ; or it maj^ be (as above) substitutive or vicarious of absent menstruation.
Uterine hemorrhage (other than the natural monthly flow) may come from congestion of the womb, or its ulceration, or cancer. During pregnancy it threatens miscarriage, or results from misplacement of the placenta (after-birth).
Hemorrhage from the bowels may be connected with piles (hemorrhoids), dysentery, ulceration of the bowels, cancer, rupture of an abdominal aneurism, typhoid, malarial or yellow fever, or vicarious menstruation.
Haematuria (blood in urine) may follow a mechanical injury, inflammation of the kidneys, stone in the bladder, or a l:)ad state of things in cases oi scarlet fever
Symptoms Connected with the Breathing Organs.
Sixteen to eighteen times in a minute is the ordinary rate of breathing while at rest, in health, for a grown person. In fever it is
almost always a good deal faster than this ; often thirty, forty, or more respirations in a minute. When a person is poisoned with opium, the breathing becomes snoring, and very slow, even only six times or less in a minute in heavy narcotism. Apoplexy, and pressure upon the brain from a piece of a broken skull, are also attended bj?" slow, snoring respiration.
Difficulty of Breathing may be caused by irrespirable gases (as chlorine, etc.) in the air ; obstruction in the air- tubes, as from croup, asthma, or bronchitis ; disease of the lungs or pleura, as in pneumonia, consumption, or pleurisy ; disease of the heart or aorta ; abdominal dropsy, pressing upwards.
Coughing, also, may have a variety of causes, of the nature of which we may often judge by its character. Thus it is, commonly, dry and tight, in early bronchitis ; soft, deep, and loose, in advanced bronchitis ; hacking, in the beginning of consumption ; deep and distressing, in advanced consumption ; short and sharp, in pneumonia ; hoarse and barking, in an early stage of croup ; whistling, in advanced membranous croup ; paroxysmal (in spells) and whooping, in whooping-cough ; dry and hollow, when sympathetic or nervous.
BxPFCToRATiON is white, thin, and mucous, in catarrh and early bronchitis ; yellow and thick {purulent) in severe and protracted bronchitis ; rusty, in the middle stage of pneumonia ; bloody, thick, and yellow, in developing consumption (phthisis) ; in heavy, round, small yellowish, lu7nps, in advanced consumption ; putrid (rotten) , in gangrene of the lung.
The Brkath is hot, during fever ; cold, in the collapse of cholera. The odor of the breath is seldom perfectly agreeable except in a healthy child. Bad teeth and imperfect digestion are common causes of unpleasantness in it. It is very heavy at the commencement of a fever ; sour, during an attack of indigestion ; rotten , in gangrene of the lung.