Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs ; in which former methods of treatment are candidly examined, and compared with one more rational and safe; effected without rest and confinement : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors; and the mammary-abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood, M.D.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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Credit: Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs ; in which former methods of treatment are candidly examined, and compared with one more rational and safe; effected without rest and confinement : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors; and the mammary-abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whofe ointments, it has been noticed, generally con- fided of the warm gums, fpirits, and efcharotics, which though, in many cafes, juftly exploded from pra6tice, in the treatment of ulcers in general,* are of admirable efficacy, in fuch as attack the lower extreaiities. What has been faid will probably be quite fufficient on thefe heads; we have here manlfeft indications before us, and the remedies are therefore ufually fimple and obvious—not always thought equally evi- dent, through the whole indications of cure. Systematical writers, who have been fond of mul- tiplying diftindlions of ulcers, have been equally precife in their diredions for obtaining a cure.-j- We are to dlgeft, deterge, incarn, and cicatrize; finufes are to be laid open, callous edges are to be removed by the knife, or deflroyed by the adual or poten- tial cautery; feme intemperies is to be corredted, or the whole habit to be altered : and above all, they advife a horizontal polition of the limb, and * See Bell, On Ulcers, who has made feveral very ufeful ob- fprvations on this head, though the French furgeons are flill of a different opinion, (as appears from their 4th vokime of Memoire* de Chirurg'ie)^ and indeed feme latitude mull be allowed; for the fad is, that in the cure of every ulcer, as of fever, a certain d'Cgree of inflammation, or exertion of the fyftem Is neceffary ; aaid too little, or an undue effort, does as certainly, though upon a different principle from Plethora, fruftrate the falutary inten- tions of nature. •j- Compofai ulceris ad curatloiiem multa: funt indicationes pro- pclits. .Parey. iiiioia