The oxygen treatment for wounds, ulcers, burns, scalds, lupus, and diseases of the nose, eye, and ear / by George Stoker.

  • Stoker, George.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The oxygen treatment for wounds, ulcers, burns, scalds, lupus, and diseases of the nose, eye, and ear / by George Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases Exhibitf.d at a Meeting of the Clinical Society, January 22nd, 1897. Case I.—J. D.; occupation, commercial traveller. This patient was admitted to the Oxygen Home on October 23rd, 1896. His leg had been bad for twenty years. Ten years, ago a wart appeared over the inner ankle, and an ulcer formed. The ulcer increased rapidly in size and was continuously painful, both night and day. Seven years ago he was obliged to give up travelling, and laid up at home for some weeks ; but no improve- ment to the ulcer resulted from rest. It was very much smaller then than it is now. Many applications of ointments, lotions, etc., were tried, and he took medicine internally—I believe of an anti- specific character. None of these treatments had any effect; the ulcer continued to increase in size and became more and more painful. On admittance it presented the appearance shewn in the photograph. It was deeply excavated, with irregular, rough thickened margins, a considerable discharge, very offensive
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