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 tumors; and the mammary-abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood, M.D.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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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 tumors; and the mammary-abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will fometimcs do under any treatment) the acrici matter either diflefting its way between the mufcles, by deftroying the cellular membrane, or elfe eating through the (km. Its edges always put on an irre? gular, and unkindly appearance, are often fwelled, and ftreaked with blood-vellels like the bottom of the fore, and are difpofed, from their laxity, to bleed upon the llightefl touch. This ulcer generally takes place in the very pooreft people, whofe blood is broken down by hard labor, or intemperance ; is very difficult to cure, and when very large often baffles every attempt of the beft hofpital furgeons. There are, however, more ways than one offubr duing many of thefe obftlnate fores, and to this, the free exhibition of the bark will greatly contribute. The efficacy of this medicine may frequently be great* ly increafed by being joined with aromatics, or in wo* men whofe menfes are ob{lrud:ed, with chalybeates ; which efpecially in that form prefcribed by the late Dr. Griffiths, is, perhaps, the beft remedy in chlo- rptic, and other cachochymic habits, ever adminif* tered. Where the patient's fituatlon will conveniently admit of reft, (though indeed the remedies may b^ adminiftered without it,*) a fomentation ufed for a I few *' nam diuturnior, et copiofior ficcantium, et detergentium vrfus, *' ulcera excavantindies; quare (fays he) prudens videbit medicus> *' quando a valentioribus detergentibus, et cotrodentibus ad mi,- ** tiora fit digrediendum. Caf^. 9. Lib, xii. * The different intention with >Yhich a common bread and nnllk poultice,