ve its source in the same manner.

Mr. A----, who had been a hard drinker, and had the gutta rosacea on his
face and breast, after a stroke of the palsy voided near a quart of a black
viscid material by stool: on diluting it with water it did not become
yellow, as it must have done if it had been inspissated bile, but continued
black like the grounds of coffee.

But any other part of the venous system may become quiescent or totally
paralytic as well as the veins of the intestines: all which occur more
frequently in those who have diseased livers, than in any others. Hence
troublesome bleedings of the nose, or from the lungs with a weak pulse;
hence haemorrhages from the kidneys, too great menstruation; and hence the
oozing of blood from every part of the body, and the petechiae in those
fevers, which are termed putrid, and which is erroneously ascribed to the
thinness of the blood: for the blood in inflammatory diseases is equally
fluid before it coagulates in the cold air.

Is not that hereditary consumption, which occurs chiefly in dark-eyed
people about the age of twenty, and commences with slight pulmonary
haemorrhages without fever, a disease of this kind?--These haemorrhages
frequently begin during sleep, when the irritability of the lungs is not
sufficient in these patients to carry on the circulation without the
assistance of volition; for in our waking hours, the motions of the lungs
are in part voluntary, especially if any difficulty of breathing renders
the efforts of volition necessary. See Class I. 2. 1. 3. and Class III. 2.
1. 12. Another species of pulmonary consumption which seems more certainly
of scrophulous origin is described in the next Section, No. 2.

I have seen two cases of women, of about forty years of age, both of whom
were seized with quick weak pulse, with difficult respiration, and who spit
up by coughing much viscid mucus mixed with dark coloured blood. They had
both large vibices on their limbs, and petechiae; in one the feet were in
danger of mortification, in the other the legs were oedematous. To relieve
the difficult respiration, about six ounces of blood were taken from one of
them, which to my surprise was sizy, like inflamed blood: they had both
palpitations or unequal pulsations of the heart. They continued four or
five weeks with pale and bloated countenances, and did not cease spitting
phlegm mixed with black blood, and the pulse seldom slower than 130 or 135
in a minute. Th