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 tumours; the mammary abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women; observations on the more common disorders of the eye, and on gangrene / by Michael Underwood, M.D.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
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MDCCXCIX [1799]
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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 tumours; the mammary abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women; observations on the more common disorders of the eye, and on gangrene / by Michael Underwood, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^jtjt PREFACE. auxiliary* to the plan which I now fubmit anew to the public -, not without fome ad- ditional vouchers to its fuccefs. Another treatife on this fubjedl, by an ingenious writer and pra(5titioner, claims a refpe6lful attention, and promifes likewife no inconliderable affiftance to fuch furgeons as have adopted my plan ; who will^ I am perfuaded, find themfelves amply rewarded hy an attentive perufal of his work. Mr. Home's Obfernjations on the Treatment of Ukers on the Legs, which appeared foon after Mr. Baynton's ^ befides many ex- cellent practical diflindions of ulcers, re- commends a variety of well adapted topical applications -, forming a better clafiification of ulcerSy-f* and their appropriate remedies, and exhibiting more of fyftem, than has * This, indeed, I have myfelf been witnefs to in a late inftance—'SNheih^iX Mr. Simmons oi Mayichejier, who has taken up Baynton's plan with certain exceptions and modifications^ expeds much more from it, is not perfedlly clear from the obfervatiom publifhed the laft yea;r in Duncan's Anna/s of Medi- cine. f The younger readers of the prefent edition may hereby be glad to find that defeft in this treatife very materially fup- plied. for