Book 2
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THERE are two species of the discharge of blood by the mouth. The one that by the mouth from the head and the vessels there; the passage is by the palate and fauces, where are situated the commencement of the œsophagus and trachea; and with hawking, and small and more urgent cough, they eructate the blood into the mouth; whereas, in that from the mouth, neither does hawking accompany, and it is called Emptysis [or spitting of blood]. But when the discharge is more scanty, and by drops, or when it comes more copiously from the head, or from the mouth, it is no longer called a bringing up, but either the same, or a spitting, or a hemorrhage. But if it ascend from the chest, and the viscera there, the lungs, aspera arteria, the parts about the spine, the discharge from these is not called a spitting, but a bringing up (in Greek, ἀναγωγή, the name being expressive of its coming upwards).Cælius Aurelianus, under the head of Sanguinis fluor, thus explains the term:—Improprium est enim fluorem vocare id quod ascensu quodam non lapsu fertur. Sed hæc Græci versa vice posuerunt, derivationem nominis intuentes. Hi enim anagogen vocant quod magis ex inferioribus ad superiora fluorem significat.—Tard. pass. iii. 9. We are at a loss for a proper vocable in English to express this term. It is usually translated rejectio in Latin, which, however, is not sufficiently expressive. The most suitable in English, which I can think of, is a bringing up.
