English
Noun
black vomit
- a blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds and due to hæmorrhage, vomited in severer cases of yellow fever; also, the disease of yellow fever itself
#:1833 Cyclopædia of practical medicine II. 295 A fever, with yellow skin and black vomit in some of the cases, appeared among a party of forty men.
#:1876 John S. Bristowe A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine (1878) 199 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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