Practical observations on the treatment of ulcers on the legs, considered as a branch of military surgery. To which are added, some observations on varicose veins, and piles / [Sir Everard Home].

  • Everard Home
Date:
1801
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of ulcers on the legs, considered as a branch of military surgery. To which are added, some observations on varicose veins, and piles / [Sir Everard Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G18] CHAPTER IV. OF ULCERS IN PARTS THAT ARE TOO WEAK TO CARRY ON THE ACTIONS NECESSARY FOR THEIR RECOVERY. Ulcers of this kind differ from those in healthy parts; the granulations are larger in size, rounded upon their external sur- face, less compact in their texture, and semi- transparent. When they arrive at the sur- face of the body, they do not readily form skin, and frequently continue to rise still higher, and then entirely lose the disposition to form new skin. In a still more weak- ened state of parts, the granulations after having gone on favourably for several days, shall all at once give way and be absorbed into the constitution, leaving the ulcer as broad and deep as it was before, the gra- nulations not being strong enough to pre- serve themselves from decay.
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