A practical treatise on haemoptysis or spitting of blood : shewing the safety and efficacy of emetics, and the pernicious effect of blood-letting, in the treatment of that disease / by George Rees.

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on haemoptysis or spitting of blood : shewing the safety and efficacy of emetics, and the pernicious effect of blood-letting, in the treatment of that disease / by George Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by Dr. Reid ; who himself says, 4£ In Haemop¬ tysis, or spitting of blood from the lungs, vomit¬ ing acts as a powerful styptic.” In a case of haemoptoe attended with bilious complaints, in which strong vomits were taken repeatedly, always with relief, but they never brought on the spitting of blood. 46 He has sat down to take a strong vomit, so weak, so feeble and dispi¬ rited, that they who looked on were apprehen¬ sive he would not have strength to go through it; whereas he rose after the operation very much refreshed, and with his strength sensibly raised; no vomit ever hurt him, spitting of blood fore¬ seen and prevented by a vomit.” Wood ward’s cases by Templeman, page lib, and seq. ann. I737» ibid, page 342. This quotation, which bears very pointedly upon the question before us, will tend still far¬ ther to sanction the practice, and will be suffi¬ cient to shew that the practice is not novel, though it is not genera] ; it may serve as a kind of set-off, as the lawyers term it, to the opinion of a more recent writer, Dr. Stone, who, speaking of Dr. Bryan Robinson, styles him, “ a most absurd speculator in physic says, his practice mlist have been deleterious in haemorrhagy, and * Vide Dr. Stone on Disorders of the Stomach. that