The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost.

Kost, J., 1819-1904

Date:: 1847

Credit: The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$Bi ceding from Piles.—Bleeding from hemorrhoidal tumors, \& wry common, and although not very dangerous, it is some- times very troublesome. Treatment.—The treatment here, as in other cases of bleed- ing, consists in the use of astringents, or styptic preparations. A strong infusion of the astringent tonic compound, or any of the simple astringent articles, applied by means of a sponge, or cloth, is correct treatment. If the bleeding parts are within the intestine, the strained infusion should be injected by means of a syringe. Perseverance, in the treatment, is sometimes necessary. BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS. (Hamoptysis.) Bleedfng from the lungs, although very alarming to some people, is not generally very dangerous; and it is seldom the case, that it arises from a rupture of the blood-vessels. From a morbidly relaxed condition of the parts, the blood in this, as in many other cases of passive hemorrhage, passes through the delicate textures, in the same manner that water is found to permeate soft leather. Hemorrhage from the lungs, varies considerably in its extent or violence. Active hemorrhage from the lungs is often proceeded by certain premonitory symptoms; such as a feeling of heaviness and lassitude: anxiety; stricture across the breast; short cough; palpitation of the heart: deep and frequent sighing; a deep- seated, pungent or burning pain under the sternum, [breast bone,] slight and creeping chills; cold hands and feet; alter- nate paleness and Hushing of the face; mental and corporal irritability; a quick, small, frequent and corded pulse; and often a disagree able salty or sweetish taste in the mouth. After these symptoms have continued for a longer or shorter period; the patient usually begins to feel a sense of warmth in the breast, gradually rising up towards the larynx, atten- ded with a saltish taste. Slight coughing now ensues, or an effort is made to hawk, and the blood makes its appearance. In many cases, however, the hemorrhage comes on suddenly, without any premonitory symptoms whatever. When this is the ease, there is commonly but little blood discharged at a$