Meaning of black vomit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases of yellow fever.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. The disease of yellow fever itself.
   obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“A fever, with yellow skin and black vomit in some of the cases, appeared among a party of forty men.”

“Black vomit is nothing but a hœmorrhage from the stomach, and may exist in any degree, from a few particles of blood mixed, as it were, into a quantity of light glairy fluid, presenting the appearance of floating dark specks or flocculi, to that of a rapid and profuse discharge of pure red blood.”

“On the third or fourth day, or later, the vomited matters..begin to contain blood..and they soon assume..a coffee-ground character, constituting the so-called black vomit.”

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