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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 140 of 653ful thing in the eyes of lay-people. We have already stated thatthe hemorrhage scarcely ever threatens life with immolate danger.158 Diseases of the Lungs«.Even copious and rapidly recurring hemorrhages destroy life onlyexceptionally. The result is difierent if the importance of thehemorrhage to the general organism is inquired inta The scantyexpectoration of blood which many persons, even without beingaffected with pneumonia, raise during every acute catarrh of therespiratory organs, is of very trifling significance, although itproper that a careful exploration of the chest should be institutwith a view of determining the presence or absence of tuberculardeposits. No more attention need be paid to the slight hemorrhages of pregnant or menostatic females, as long as no tuberculadeposits are at the foundation of the bleeding. Persons afflictedwith cardiac diseases, are very often attacked with pulmonaryhemorrhage which, however, does not imply any particular danger.In general, however, we have to admit that in by far the largermajority of cases pulmonary hemorrhage points to the presence oftubercles in the lungs and to the progress of the tubercular diseand that hence it is justly regarded as a dangerous symptom evenif a physical exploration of the chest does not yet reveal the prence of any alarming disorganization. If the hemorrhage is veryprofuse, a return may indeed be apprehended, for a disposition tothe disease remains, and-oannot even be denied in cases where notubercles exist. The meaning and importance of pulmonary hemorrhage in cardiac affections will be examined more fully when wecome to treat of the affections of the heart.To these paragraphs we have to add a few remarks concerninginternal pulmonary hemorrhage, we mean infarctions and apoplexy,which frequently complicates pneumorrhagia and determines itsmost disastrous sequels.Infarctions in the lungs have their foci. At times there is one,at other times several, varying in size to that of a walnut and elarger. They occur much less frequently near the periphery thanthe base of the lungs. Infarctions occur in the lungs as sharplydefined dark-red or black spots of a granular appearance on theircut surface, without much firmness ; a grumous, black fluid can bsqueezed out of them. The surrounding parts are either (edematousor inflamed. In real apoplexy the infarcted spot is always of morconsiderable size, and the pulmonary parenchyma is partiallydestroyed.Infarctions mostly take place where the pulmonary circulationhad met with considerable obstructions, hence in cardiac affectioless frequently in tuberculosis. Apoplexy arises by the laceratioPneumorrhagia. 159of a larger vessel, either because the vessel is diseased, or inqaence of external violence.Symptoms. {Smaller and detached infarctions may form withhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt