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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 137 of 653to persons affticted with incipient tuberculosis. There is scarceany affection where it is as necessary to abstain from the use ofcoffee as pulmonary hypersemia, which is caused by the action ofcoffee not only directly, but likewise through an increased excitbility of the functional activity of the heart. Frequent deep andprotracted inspirations are exceedingly useful in regulating theaction of the lungs. Vigorous, but not excessive bodily exerciseuseful rather than otherwise ; the good results of careful ascensof mountains by tuberculous patients afford the best evidence thathis statement is founded upon facts.8. Pneninorrluit^a,Pulmonary Hemorrhage.If we consider the delicacy of the pulmonary tissue and the quantity of blood which is collected in it, we have no difficulty inprehending that one of the pulmonary vessels may readily tear, anmust cause a more or less considerable hemorrhage. For this reasopulmonary hemorrhage is one of the most frequently occurringmorbid phenomena which of itself is not so very important, becausthe bleeding scarcely ever amounts to an excessive quantity, anddoes not threaten life with immediate danger.Etiology. As we stated in the previous chapter, a high degreeof pulmonary hypersemia may easily result in effusion of blood inthe air-passages. The effusion differs in quantity according as taffected lungs are naturally sound or otherwise morbidly affectedThe causes of pulmonary hypercemia are therefore in a certain senthe causes of pulmonary hemorrhage. The main reason, however,why pulmonary hemorrhage is invested with such ominous importance to every layman, is the circumstance that it implies the exience of morbid conditions which result in the destruction of thepulmonary tissue, among which tuberculosis occupies the first ranIt is difficult to explain why the same influences should occasiopulmonary hemorrhage in one individual and not in another. WePneumorrhagta. 155know that sanguine, florid, irritable individuals are more liablehemorrhages than phlegmatic and torpid persons ; but we cannotdecide whether this liability is owing to an accelerated flow ofblood, or to an excessive delicacy of the walls of the vessels. Deases of the vessels themselves, atheromatous degenerations, aneurysms, etc., lead to the most profuse and most threatening hemorrhages. The not unfrequent occurrence of considerable pulmonaryhemorrhages during pregnancy or after a suppression of the mensesis difficult to account for. As regards age, it is selftheage where the pulmonary activity is heightened and where thedevelopment of the pulmonary tissue is most active, is the agewhere pulmonary hemorrhages occur most frequently ; this is theage between the years of fourteen and twenty-five. Whether onesex or the other is more liable, is not certain.SU'fnptoms and Course. Pulmonary hemorrhage either takesplace into the bronchia or into the pulmonary tissue. It is eithecopious or scanty, in accordance with which we have in the firstplace hemoptysis, the evacuation of small quantities of blood tohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt