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If the lung is injured the sputa will be bloody, and the appearance of such a condition should be at once reported.

From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.

This appearance of blood in their sputa was the cause of a great anxiety to them and made them hurry over to my office.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

I saw you take the sputa of a ague patient and demonstrate the spores and sporangia of the Gemiasma verdans. 3d.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and even lung muscle.

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)

He noted the temperature; rate and other qualities of the pulse; looked at the tongue and sputa.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)