The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery; Including That in the Hot Countries, Particulary Useful to All Who Visit the East and West Indies, or the C - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1770 Excerpt: ... Hæmorrhages are distinguished into Natural and Pre-Hsrmorrhatcrnatural: Natural Hæmorrhages which are here only treated of) comprehend bleeding at the nose, spitting of blood, stux of the-hæmorrhoids, vomiting of blood, and voiding of blood by urine.,t I t it-. ;. 1 I As to the prognostic of Hæmorrhages, it may ia ge-pr0gnostjc neral be observed, that those proceeding from the lungs," in general, vomiting, and voiding of blood by urine, are all very dangerous: the others, when regulated and in due proportion, are salutary, and often prevent diseases, but. 'the common custom of stopping them too suddenly by astringents, or otherwise, is often productive of stagn, tions, inflammations, and violent fevers. The common Hæmorrhages, arising from a mere plethora, will allow bleeding safely both by way of prevention and cure; but there is another kind of Hæmor-Hæmorrharhage that will not, that is, when the blood tends to scordissolution and putrefaction, which is the cafe of scor-The signs, butics (I mean, such as are frequent at sea in long voyages) these, when they are otherwise seemingly well, unless a little languid and feeble, shall all of a sudden have an eruption of purple, livid, or.even black spots, some sometimes in particular parts, sometimes all over the body, and soon after fall into profuse,.dangerous, and sometimes fatal Hæmorrhagcs, when themselves or others have scarce thought them in any danger. Doctor Buxham has most.justly observed, that persons of both sexes, affected with these vibices, are apt ta'bleed excessively from the slightest wound, and very often without any, from the gums, hose, guts, or urinary passages, without the least sign of a plethora j which therefore must happen from an erosion of the...
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