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Excerpt from Medical Dissertations on Hemoptysis or the Spitting of Blood, and on Suppuration: Which Obtained the Boylston Premiums for the Years 1818 and 1820 Hemoptysis is undoubtedly sometimes occasioned in the first of these ways, by a mechanical rupture of the coats Of the vessels. And it has been the pre vailing opinion, that it is commonly produced in this way. The grounds for a different belief will be given shortly, and in the mean time it may be observed, that only those cases of hemoptysis are produced by rup ture in which some external violence has been applied, or where there has been some very violent oorts of respiration, as in coughing. 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.