Excerpt from Considerations Upon Medical Haemorrhage Surgically Treated: With a Successful Case, by a New Technique, of Saline Infusion for Severe Haemorrhage Dr. Loomis' opinion in a matter of bleeding from the lungs is one which would be, I think, accepted with respect. His Text book of Practical Medicine, eighth edition, p. 95, says, It has never seemed to me that styptics or astringents have any control over bronchial haemorrhages, but aconite and opium are the two remedies upon which I rely. When the pulse is full and strong, I use aconite when it is weak, I em ploy morphia hypodermatically. The really valuable means, concerning which the present paper is in part to treat, Dr. Loomis does not even mention. As to aconite, so far as it is of use at all, it is by bleeding the patient into his own veins, so to speak; and has hence been called the vegetable lancet. This idea in a much more efficient form, is just what I propose to advocate. Regarding morphine, by slowing the breathing it renders the pulmonary circulation rather less active and it also causes mental quietude and calm. But that is all. After a time nature causes a coagulum at the mouth of the bleeding vessel; and to aid this, our drugs do very little. During eight to ten years past, I have, for purely logical reasons, been urging upon my students a differ ent line of treatment in these cases - cases, I mean, of dangerous and yet unreachable bleeding anywhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.