A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, and ulcers of various parts : arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blodd, &c. / by William Rowley, M.D. Member of the University of Oxford, Royal College of Physicians in London, &c.

  • William Rowley
Date:
1786
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Credit: A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, and ulcers of various parts : arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blodd, &c. / by William Rowley, M.D. Member of the University of Oxford, Royal College of Physicians in London, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    In treating ulcers, it is a univerfal max- im amongft ancient and modern furgeons, that three ftages of cure are neceffary, de- terging or cleanfing j i?icarnatio?7f or fill- ing up the lofs of fubftance; cicatrifd- tion, or the fkinning over an ulcer. Hip- pocrates pronounces above two thoufand years ago; rxn ya,o eXy.exy vif [abv ocvx'kx^oh- pnfxt fruw AouJcw, ra^tinv B'spoiTreir]]/ $r,Xqi txv Si fxiroi^xXXri tcu? f^tapa^y y.oiKo-n^n. Pra(3;ical Surgery generally obferves the fame. In another place he delivers himfelf thus : 'I-rtfS'flji St rot, EXKBtXp w? Jtt TO, £v a\Xu iuf/.xrty otipXsy- XXI eV «Tf»A«f tzyiiv. The principal objedt in Sur- gery is, to produce thofe fucceflive changes by various applicatrons in each particular Hage. After the difcharge of an acrimo- nious thin Jerum, what has been called laudable pus fucceeds, which flows while the wound incairns: Hippocrates truly fays, TTuov T/)o^)n iXy.toi;. When the granulations of fiefh have fhot out to the furfacc, and the part, formerly loft, has been renewed; then the fkin extends forth its fibres and gradually covers the whok ^ 2 fpnce.,
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