A Case of Sweating Blood

A fkw weeks ago a medical man in Kangoon told me that he had a case under his observation ?f a Mahomedan lady who sweated blood. She was a woman of about 50 years" of age, who had ceased menstruating six months ago, and since her menses had stopped, she had begun to sweat blood?the bleeding taking place, curiously enough, only about the waist, in front. I did not believe that his story could possibly be correct, but he insisted on the correctness of his description, and offered to show me the patient. At the time of; my examination the patient told me that she was not bleeding at the time, but that she had been bleeding, and it was obvious that the top of her loongyi (a skirt tied round the waist) was blood stained. The first step in the examination was to expose the front of her chest and abdomen completely, and it was at once seen that there were numerous little black specks in the neighbourhood of each nipple, in the areola. On examination with a lens these were seen to