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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    able, that very irritating applications to thefe uktrs fcarce ever induce it, efpecially, (however incredible it may appear) where exercife is freely allowed ; which by its tendency to pronnote the difcharge, fo far counteracts inflammation. The precife form of fuch digef^ives, it Vv'ould be thought trifling to infill upon, as the Pharmacopoeise oiLondon SiudEdinburgh for the moil part contain them, or fuch as are very fimilar to them ; * though both pharmacoposiie are deficient in regard to a fuitable digedive for tendinous parts. In other refpecls, how- ever, fome one of the more adive among thefe pre- fcribed formulae, will in a very few days produce a fine furface on an old, and very painful fore, and wi-th the afTiftance of exercife, a good diet, and pro- per roller, will in a variety of cafes, and without any other means, cffed: a fpeedy and lafling cure ; though the patient Ihould have been fubjed: to fore legs for a number of years, and never eafy a month together, after having been repeatedly healed io the ordinary way. * It may be ufeful, however, juft to fay, that the Unguent, Bafil. nigr. of the Lofuion Pharmacop. as a digeftive for ulcers on the legs, is as much preferable to the Bafil. flav. as that would be to the Ung. album. And I mention this, and have alfo, in the prefent edition, taken notice of other applications I have found uftful, in confcquence of being informed, that gentlemen who have adopted the plan, and with very good fuccefs, have been at great pains in making experiments in regard to topicals, before they could be fatisfied what might bcft correfpond with the hints I had formerly given,