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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    other fores; between recent wounds of the legs, occafioned b}'- fome accicient, and thofe made on any bther part of the body : fome reafon there muft beji for the additional trouble in healing the former, as well as the greater difBculty with which they arc afterwards preferved in that il:ale. This is effentialiy neccfTary if we would eftabllfli a rational pra<fiice, and fo far as this end is kept in view, it is hoped, an attempt will not be accounted fuperlluous. It fcarcely needs to be obferved, that ulcers may be occafioned either by every external accident abra- ding the fkin,* or bruiling the parts underneath, in a certain habit of body, predifpoled to ulceration ; or by any internal caufe,!- exciting fuch inflammatiori in a part as fliall incline it to luppurate, though no external injury has been received : fuch are fevers of different kinds. To thefe fliould be added negledt, or mifmanagement, when an abfcefs is formed, by which a iimple wound is converted into an ulcer, or continual fore of the part. Thefe are briefly the caufes of ulcers in general, and where no fpecific contagion prevails in the habit, are all chat need to be confidered. In thofe of the legs, indeed, we are farther led to remark the ftate and circumftances of the limb, which being a depending and an extreme part of the body, may be regarded as a particular and predifpofing * Ulcus eft continui fokitio ab erofione fav^a.—Galen, ■[• Uiceiis caufe vel interns: funr, vel externa.—Parey. caufe#