Fabricius Hildanus reports the loss of 27 pounds of blood in a few days; and there is an older record of 40 pounds being lost in four days.

Horstius, Fabricius Hildanus, and Schenck, all record instances of death from hemorrhage of the gums.

Tulpius speaks of hemoptysis lasting chronically for thirty years, and there is a similar record of forty years' duration in the Ephemerides.

Chapman gives several instances of extreme hemorrhage from epistaxis.

He remarks that Bartholinus has recorded the loss of 48 pounds of blood from the nose; and Rhodius, 18 pounds in thirty-six hours.