Volume 2

The works .... / [John Huxham].

  • Huxham, John, 1692-1768
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works .... / [John Huxham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in their PafTage, as the enlarged Bulk makes their 'Tranfit more difficult. Now as theie broken Parts are of much lefler Diameter than the original Globules, they may readily enter, and even pafs thro’ fome of the excretory Du6ts, and tranfude^^r Diapedeftny as the An- cients called it.—That this is fo in Fa6t feems to appear from the bloody Urine, Stools, and other Hemorrhages, which fometimes happen without any Manner of Pain, Violence of Mo- tion, or the lead Sufpicion of the Rupture of any Veflels.—Nay, I have more than once or twice feen in malignant Fevers, and that too where the Motion of the Blood was far from being very rapid, a Kind of * bloody Sweat from the tinging the Linnen almoft of a Burgundy Wine Colour.—And it is obferva- ble, that when this Sort of Hemorrhages happens from the Nofe, the Matter is a thin Moody IchoTy not concreting, as Blood com- monly doth from the Nofe of Perfons in Health, or in an inflammatory Fever, which is gene- rally very thick, fhining and florid : Some xhlorotic Girls are vaftly apt to bleed from the Nofe, and yet their Blood doth but jufl colour a linnen Cloth.—The Petechiay VihiceSy or livid StigmatUy that very often attend thefe Haemor- rhages, fhew that the Blood-globules are dif- • Dr. Hodges, of the plague chfervedpurple S^weats in ity 0ind fome like Bloody ■ ' folved.