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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IX
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Van Swieten mentions a young lady who from her twelfth year at her menstrual periods had hemorrhages from pustules in the skin, the pustules disappearing in the interval.
Schmidt's Jahrbucher for 1836 gives an account of a woman who had diseased ovaries and a rectovesicovaginal fistula, and though sometimes catamenia appeared at the proper place it was generally arrested and hemorrhage appeared on the face.

Chambers mentions a woman of twenty-seven who suffered from bloody sweat after the manner of the stigmatists, and Petrone mentions a young man of healthy antecedents, the sweat from whose axillae and pubes was red and very pungent.
Petrone believes it was due to a chromogenic micrococcus, and relieved the patient by the use of a five per cent solution of caustic potash.
Chloroform, ether, and phenol had been tried without success.

Hebra mentions a young man in whom the blood spurted from the hand in a spiral jet corresponding to the direction of the duct of the sweat-gland.

Wilson refers to five cases of bloody sweat.
There is a record of a patient who once or twice a day was attacked with swelling of the scrotum, which at length acquired a deep red color and a stony hardness, at which time the blood would spring from a hundred points and flow in the finest streams until the scrotum was again empty.
Hill describes a boy of four who during the sweating stage of malaria sweated blood from the head and neck.

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.


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