On the nitrate of silver: with full directions for its application in the treatment of inflammation, etc / [John Higginbottom].

  • John Higginbottom
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the nitrate of silver: with full directions for its application in the treatment of inflammation, etc / [John Higginbottom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after the publication of my essay on the use of the nitrate of silver, that “ old ulcers of the legs in 1830 would be old ulcers of the legs in 1840,” that no improvement would be made in the sur- gical treatment. After the lapse of nearly twenty years, I am led to conclude that there has been a very mani- fest improvement in that department of surgery —not so much by the permanent cure of old ulcers of the legs by the use of the nitrate of sil- ver as I anticipated, hut by what is far better— their prevention, by the early use of that remedy. I have no doubt that if the method given in these directions were attended to for subduing external inflammation by the use of the nitrate of silver, the treatment of bruised wounds and of small ulcers, with the occasional assistance of graduated pressure by bandages, or the elastic stocking, we should seldom have severe cases of old ulcers of the legs. From my own observation and enquiry, I am led to believe that old ulcers of the legs have materially decreased in number in this locality, both in hospital and private practice.