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.
Date:
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    fifteen years ago; fatisfy him, that what- ever other means may be, in fome inftances, neceflary to the cure of old ulcers on the legs, he is juftified in offering it again, howfoever precluded from any advantages of minute correction, or protracted prac- tice.—Nor can he avoid adding again, that he mufl lament its not having hitherto been more generally adopted, both in public and private practice.—It muft perhaps fometimes fail, as every remedy has done; although in a more limited fphere, it has been fo generally fuccefsful. But would hofpitals affiduoufly take up this plan, much good mufi be done; and the author cannot but ftill hope, that after he fhall be unable to invite them to it, practitioners will be found who will have courage enough to forfake the 'uia trita and the lenient plan, and improving upon thefe outlines, will furprife their brethren by fafely healing old ulcers hitherto deemed incurable. CONTENTS.