The Ephemerides contains
an account of epistaxis without cessation for six weeks. Another
writer in an old journal speaks of 75 pounds of blood from
epistaxis in ten days. Chapman also mentions a case in which, by
intestinal hemorrhage, eight gallons of blood were lost in a
fortnight, the patient recovering. In another case a pint of
blood was lost daily for fourteen days, with recovery. The loss
of eight quarts in three days caused death in another case; and
Chapman, again, refers to the loss of three gallons of blood from
the bowel in twenty-four hours. In the case of Michelotti,
recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society, a young man
suffering from enlargement of the spleen vomited 12 pounds of
blood in two hours, and recovered.
In hemorrhoidal hemorrhages, Lieutaud speaks of six quarts being
lost in two days; Hoffman, of 20 pounds in less than twenty-four
hours, and Panaroli, of the loss of one pint daily for two years.
Arrow-Wounds.--According to Otis the illustrious Baron Percy was
wont to declare that military surgery had its origin in the
treatment of wounds inflicted by darts and arrows; he used to
quote Book XI of the Iliad in behalf of his belief, and to cite
the cases of the patients of Chiron and Machaon, Menelaus and
Philoctetes, and Eurypiles, treated by Patroclus; he was even
tempted to believe with Sextus that the name iatros, medicus, was
derived from ios, which in the older times signified "sagitta,"
and that the earliest function of our professional ancestors was
the extraction of arrows and darts.
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