New London surgical pocket-book : (medical, operative, and mechanical,) founded on the popular lectures and works of Mr. Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, Mr. Lawrence, and other distinguished surgeons ... including an adapted pharmacopoeia.

Date:
1836
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Credit: New London surgical pocket-book : (medical, operative, and mechanical,) founded on the popular lectures and works of Mr. Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, Mr. Lawrence, and other distinguished surgeons ... including an adapted pharmacopoeia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vicle. From what I have seen of these'swellings, observes Mr., Abernethy, I should not be inclined to inject, or irritate them by i the introduction of a tent; but to lay the part freely open, squeeze i out the contents, put on a bread and water poultice, and attend i to the state of the general health. Treatment of Sarcomatous and Encysted Tumours.— Sarcomatous tumours, in common with the encysted, may be con- sidered as edifices built up by diseased actions, and which the actions continue afterwards to inhabit. Tlie treatment of be may be regarded as the same—namely, that of reducing tcmj rature of the part, and applying leeches when the inflammation active, and the use of stimulants, before described, when the infla: mation has quite subsided, and the tumour is of an indolent cl. racter. In all cases where tumours are formed, an increase, ai sometimes, a disordered action, of the vessels which form them supposed. In the growth and reproduction of destroyed par; a gelatinous material is first effused, which afterwards beconi vascular; and this process is adduced as the simplest manner which tumours form. It is probable that all tumours are at fi. formed in this way, but that the peculiarities which they afterwa; exhibit depend upon some subsequent diseased peculiarity. Ahernetliy. Obs.—Although these swellings will frequently by surgical trc ment remain stationary for years, by lessening increased acu in and about the part by soothing applications and attention to t general health, yet they will often continue to increase in sv- they become sources of uneasiness and anxiety, and require to removed; and they appear best removed in the manner hi^^ ])ointed out. That languid form of inflammation which build up new structures and alters the functions of parts in the vi, here described, sometimes produces other effects.—Abscess Chronic. ULCERS. I|. Defin.—An Ulcer is a granulating surface, secreting ^^^Tt When perfectly healthy, the granulations of ulcersare florid, eq ^