Hemorrhage

A hemorrhage is colloquially understood as a sudden, heavy bleeding (haemorrhage) from an orifice, in the narrower sense bleeding from an artery , which manifests itself as a blood breakdown ( hematemesis ) or coughing up blood ( hemoptysis ). In folk medicine and in history, there was often no more precise distinction between these various diseases, even if there are very different causes behind them. In the case of Goethe's hemorrhage in Leipzig in 1768, which historians often attribute to tuberculosis (and thus to a hemorrhage from a tuberculous cavern ) , as well as another hemorrhage in Weimar in 1830, according to the doctor Nager, a gastric or duodenal ulcer can also occur have been the cause. The loss of blood in a hemorrhage can lead to death.

See also

• Esophageal varices
• Hematochezia
• Guaiac test
• Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Boerhaave syndrome

literature

• Roche Lexicon Medicine. 5th edition. Urban & Fischer Verlag, Munich / Jena 2003, ISBN 3-437-15072-3 .

Web links

Wiktionary: hemorrhage  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Nager: The healing poet. Goethe and medicine. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1990; 4th edition ibid. 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1043-8 , pp. 24-28 ( For the second time near the grave: Lung or stomach bleeding? ), 37, 47 f. and 76.

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