Paullini observed a sailor of thirty, who, falling
speechless and faint during a storm on the deck of his ship, sweated a
red perspiration from his entire body and which stained his clothes. He
also mentions bloody sweat following coitus. Aristotle speaks of bloody
sweat, and Pellison describes a scar which periodically opened and
sweated blood. There were many cases like this, the scars being usually
in the location of Christ's wounds.

De Thou mentions an Italian officer who in 1552, during the war between
Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V, was threatened with public
execution; he became so agitated that he sweated blood from every
portion of the body. A young Florentine about to be put to death by an
order of Pope Sixtus V was so overcome with grief that he shed bloody
tears and sweated blood. The Ephemerides contains many instances of
bloody tears and sweat occasioned by extreme fear, more especially fear
of death. Mezeray mentions that the detestable Charles IX of France,
being under constant agitation and emotion, sank under a disorder which
was accompanied by an exudation of blood from every pore of his body.
This was taken as an attempt of nature to cure by bleeding according to
the theory of the venesectionists. Fabricius Hildanus mentions a child
who, as a rule, never drank anything but water, but once, contrary to
her habit, drank freely of white wine, and this was soon followed by
hemorrhage from the gums, nose, and skin.

There is a case also related of a woman of forty-five who had lost her
only son. One day she fancied she beheld him beseeching her to release
his soul from purgatory by prayers and fasting every Friday. The
following Friday, which was in the month of August, and for five
succeeding Fridays she had a profuse bloody perspiration, the disorder
disappearing on Friday, March 8th, of the following year. Pooley says
that Maldonato, in his "Commentaries of Four Gospels," mentions a
healthy and robust man who on hearing of his sentence of death sweated
blood, and Zacchias noted a similar phenomenon in a young man condemned
to the flames. Allusion may also be made to St. Luke, who said of
Christ that in agony He prayed more earnestly, "and His sweat was, as
it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground."

Pooley quotes the case of a young woman of indolent habit who in a
religious fanatical trance sweated blood. The stigmatists were often
imposters who artificially opened their