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OF BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.

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Violent passions or agitations of the mind will like-wise have this effect. These often cause bleeding at thenose, and 1 have known them sometimes occasion anhaemorrhage in the brain. Violent efforts of the bodyby overstraining or hurting the vessels, may have thesame effect, especially when the I ody is long kept in anunnatural posture, as hanging the head very low, &c.

The cure of an haemorrhage must be adapted to itscause. When it proceeds from too much blood, or atendency to inflammation, bleeding, with gentle purgesand other evacuations, will be necessary. It will like-wise be proper for the patient in this case to live chieflyupon a vegetable diet, to avoid all strong liquors andfood that is of an acrid, hot, or stimulating quality.The body should be kept cool, and the mind easy.

When an haemorrhage is owing to a putrid or dis-solved state of the blood, the patient ought to livechiefly upon acrid ft ■■■>, with milk, and vegetablesof a nourishing nature, as sago, Salop, &c. His drinkmay be wine diluted with water, and sharpened withthe juice of lemon, vinegar, or spirits of vitriol. Thebest medicine in this case is the Peruvian bark, whichmay be taken according to the urgency of the symp-toms.

When a flux of blood is the effect of acrid food, orof strong stimulating medicines, the cure is to beeffected by soft and mucilaginous diet. The patientmay likewise take frequently about the bulk of a nut-meg of Locatelli's balsam, or the same quantity ofspermaceti.When an obstructed perspiration, or a stricture uponany part of the system, is the cause of an haemorrhage,it may be removed by drinking warm diluting liquors,lying a bed, bathing the extremities in warm water, &c.

OF BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.

Bleeding at the nose is commonly preceded bysome degree of quickness at the pulse, flushing in theface, pulsation in the temporal arteries, heaviness inthe head, dimness of the sight, heat and itching of thenostrils, &c.