A treatise on the cure of ulcers by fumigation / [George Alfred Walker].

  • George Alfred Walker
Date:
1847
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Credit: A treatise on the cure of ulcers by fumigation / [George Alfred Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to use the knife, we may destroy the surface of the ulcer with. any caustic plaster, and then employ various stimulants to promote cicatrisation. | Having thus briefly alluded to the opinions of the ancients, I proceed to the analysis of the works of some of the earlier English and French writers on the subject of ulcers; their doctrines, it may be here observed, are more or less derived from the Greek authors. Banester, * in his surgical works, devotes a long chapter to ulcers, but the essential points of his practice may be told in a few words. Painful ulcers are to be treated with poultices containing either anodynes or narcotics. Ulcers with “flesh excreasing” (proud flesh), require the “ cauterie actual or corrosive powders.” In cases of callous ulcer, we are to employ resolutive applications; or if the sore be obsti- nate, then scarify the edges, and have recourse to mercurial dressings. In the therapeutical portion of his work, how- ever, Banester mentions a mode of treatment which he says he invented himself, and which I am tempted to describe in his own words. The remedy is entitled “4 fume, to be used in ulcers of the inferior parts or feet in moyst bodies, and such as be sulject to putrification, by reason whereof the ulcers oft become rebellious and hard to be cured, wherefpre this fume (after the bodie is purged and the ulcer mundified ) is very commodious to be used. * The works of that famous chirurgeon, Mr. John Banester, by him digested into five books. London, 1633,
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