Boracic acid in surgery / by William Warren Greene.

  • William Warren Greene
Date:
1880
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Credit: Boracic acid in surgery / by William Warren Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ozoena and otorrhoea I have proved its quality as a prompt deodorizer and healthful alterative, and as a lotion for washing out the bladder in chronic cystitis with muco-purulent and offensive urine, I know of nothing better. I have employed it as an injection in twenty-eight cases of gonorrhoea, and 1 never had simi- lar cases do better under any other treatment. I have been equally pleased with its effect in vaginitis and in- flammation of the external genitals of the female. I have had but limited experience with it in genuine diphtheria, but in the few cases where I relied upon it as the local remedy, I have been abundantly satisfied ; and in diphtheroid and aphthous inflammations of the fauces, I have convincingly tested its action and dem- onstrated its value. In the form of a lotion or ointment it has proved efficient in erythema and facial erysipelas; and in a va- riety of skin diseases, especially eczema and the various forms of tinea, the use of the acid has been uniformly either curative or markedly palliative and beneficial. As the writing of this article recalls a large number of individual cases, I am strongly tempted to report many of the more striking ones, but 1 forbear. One case, however, still under treatment, so forcibly illus- trates the value of this remedy from a comparative stand-point, that 1 feel sure a brief notice of it will be profitable. About the first of last June a lady came under my professional care wrho, eight months before, had sus- tained severe burns upon both upper extremities, with several patches upon the chest. Both arms were deeply burned over three fourths of their surface, as was also the fore-arm of the right side. The left fore- arm was badly burned in its upper third, the lower por- tion escaping. During all these months she had been in charge of one of our most skillful physicians, who, to my personal knowledge, had exhausted the list of ordinary remedies in such cases, both lotions and oint- ments. Acetate of lead, sulphurous acid, simple cerate,
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