in Therapeutics; see Medicine Index. As a surgical operation, see Surgery Index.

BLEEDING at the Nose, called Epistaxis. See Medicine Index.

BLEEDING is also used for a haemorrhage or flux of blood from a wound, rupture of a vessel, or other accident. See HEMORRHAGY.

BLEEDING of a Corpse, is a phenomenon said to have frequently happened in the bodies of persons murdered, which, on the touch, or even the approach, of the murderer, began to bleed at the nose, ears, and other parts; so as formerly to be admitted in England, and still allowed in some other parts, as a sort of detection of the criminal and proof of the fact. Numerous instances of these posthumous haemorrhages are given by writers. But this kind of evidence ought to be of small weight: for it is to be observed, that this bleeding does not ordinarily happen, even in the presence of the murderer; yet sometimes in that even of the nearest friends, or persons most innocent; and sometimes without the presence of any, either friend or foe. In effect, where is the impossibility that a body, especially if full of blood, upon the approach of external heat, having been considerably stirred or moved, and a putrefaction coming on, some of the blood-vessels should burst, as it is certain they all will in time?

BLEEDING is also used for the drawing out of the sap of plants, otherwise called tapping. See TAPPING.