Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood].

  • Michael Underwood
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1788
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Credit: Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * . • 9 ' ? . » ;■; r . M * * £aufe. Its being an extreme part; appears to have a much greater influence than has generally been imagin- ed, or at leaft exprefled by writers on this fubjeft, and tends very much to account for the frequency of the difeafe, and to point out an indication of ctfre, which in practice has been entirely overlooked. But previous to entering upon the cure, it will be ' proper to make fome obfervations upon ulcers in general, enlarging a little on fome peculiarities attend- ing thofe on the lower extremities. . § Authors of credit* have ufually defined an ul- cer to be a folution of continuity in a foft part, dif- charging a purulent, or ichorous matter.^ But the procefs <?f ulceration con fills in more than a Ample folution of continuity; there is a real lols of fubftance in the ulcerated part. To obtain therefore a more corredt definition, I would be underflood to mean by an ulcer, a folution of continuity in a foft part of the body, from which an ichorous, purulent, famous, or vitiated matter is difcharged; attended with a lofs of fubftance in the part.]; § This a : < ■■■ , f |- I 1 • ’ . .. IjI ir-iLJl. : I- ■ 3 l’|| ' * Hippocrates excepted, who calls any folution of continuity bv that name. f Wiseman, Turner, Bell. ! “ Partis mollis folutio purulenta, vel ichorofa.” Cullen. il Les ulceres font ties foJutions de continuite dans le parties mol«» ies, avec ecoulement de pus.” Trait} tics Tutu curt et des Ulcer is, £ Sennertus and Hoffm'an give nearly this definition—1‘ Ul- cus dicitur folutio continui cum imminuta inagnitudifte, in parte A z molli,