Schmidt's Jahrbucher for 1836 gives an account of a woman who had
diseased ovaries and a rectovesicovaginal fistula, and though
sometimes catamenia appeared at the proper place it was generally
arrested and hemorrhage appeared on the face. Chambers mentions a
woman of twenty-seven who suffered from bloody sweat after the
manner of the stigmatists, and Petrone mentions a young man of
healthy antecedents, the sweat from whose axillae and pubes was
red and very pungent. Petrone believes it was due to a
chromogenic micrococcus, and relieved the patient by the use of a
five per cent solution of caustic potash. Chloroform, ether, and
phenol had been tried without success. Hebra mentions a young man
in whom the blood spurted from the hand in a spiral jet
corresponding to the direction of the duct of the sweat-gland.
Wilson refers to five cases of bloody sweat.
There is a record of a patient who once or twice a day was
attacked with swelling of the scrotum, which at length acquired a
deep red color and a stony hardness, at which time the blood
would spring from a hundred points and flow in the finest streams
until the scrotum was again empty.
Hill describes a boy of four who during the sweating stage of
malaria sweated blood from the head and neck.
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