Two months later
the skin-hemorrhages ceased and the boy died, vomiting blood and
with bloody stools.
Postmortem sweating is described in the Ephemerides and reported
by Hasenest and Schneider. Bartholinus speaks of bloody sweat in
a cadaver
In considering the anomalies of lactation we shall first discuss
those of color and then the extraordinary places of secretion.
Black milk is spoken of by the Ephemerides and Paullini. Red milk
has been observed by Cramer and Viger. Green milk has been
observed by Lanzonius, Riverius, and Paullini. The Ephemerides
also contains an account of green milk. Yellow milk has been
mentioned in the Ephemerides and its cause ascribed to eating
rhubarb.
It is a well-known fact that some cathartics administered to
nursing mothers are taken from the breast by their infants, who,
notwithstanding its indirect mode of administration, exhibit the
effects of the original drug. The same is the case with some
poisons, and instances of lead-poisoning and arsenic-poisoning
have been seen in children who have obtained the toxic substance
in the mother's milk. There is one singular case on record in
which a child has been poisoned from the milk of its mother after
she had been bitten by a serpent.
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