Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton.

  • Thomas Baynton
Date:
1799
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Credit: Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From what has been said, may it not be inferred that the peculiar difficulties hitherto experienced in the treatment of ulcers of the legs, have depended chiefly upon a deficiency of the absorbent powers of the lymph at icks of those parts in the greater number of such diseases, especially in that denominated the scorbutick; and upon a like deficiency of the absorbent powers of the veins in that variety of the disease attended with a varicose state of those vessels ? does it not appear that the deficiency of power in those vessels has been occasioned by a weakened state of the common integuments ? and is it not proba¬ ble that this remedy produces its good cffedls, or the greater number of them, by preventing in the early stages of ulcers, a greater depo¬ sition
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