An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley].
- William Rowley
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a yet the parts fill up as found, as when good matter is difcharged ; and this I can prove by a great number of cafes, which t daily have under my own care. Nay, fo far is it untrue, to fuppofe wounds are not in a healing ftate, but when a good digefted nutter, or, to ufe a common phrafe, laudable pus is difcharged; that not one cafe m ten, will be found to have any fuch difcharge during the whole cure. For my own part, I confider an Ulcer when incarning, to be in a difpofition to heal} and I am always indifferent as to the dif¬ charge, for I have feen many cafes, where a thin ferum has iffued the whole time of cure from the Ulcer, and yet it has gone on as agreeable as where if has not hap- pened. * Another obfervation I have made in U]~ cers, which, tho’ it does but feldom hap¬ pen, yet I think it worthy of notice. The generality of opinions are, that Ul¬ cers heal up from their bottom ; bat I have feen cafes, particularly in very large Ul¬ cers, where the granulations have been pufiied out from the fides, and the bottom has fcarce been altered during the whole cure;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515105_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
