Selections in pathology and surgery, or, An exposition of the nature and treatment of local disease : exhibiting new pathological views, and pointing out an important practical improvement, illustrated by cases / by John Davies.

John Davies

Date:: 1839

Credit: Selections in pathology and surgery, or, An exposition of the nature and treatment of local disease : exhibiting new pathological views, and pointing out an important practical improvement, illustrated by cases / by John Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$this plan the cavity of the ulcer fills up rapidly with healthy granulations. Where the ulcer is in a situation to have pressure applied, either a bandage or strapping with sticking plaster is had recourse to as soon as the surface has become clean and has put on a healthy appearance. Among several other local affections in which the tincture of Iodine has been used with good effect, but whose treatment it is not necessary to follow out in detail, are gouty and rheumatic swellings of the small joints, from thickening of their ligaments; fistulous openings; malignant warts or ad- ventitious excrescences; ganglions; the stinging of wasps; diseases of the spine ; ununited fractures ; hernia humoralis ; inflamed urethra, and chordee; inflammation of the bursae; chronic ophthalmia, and opacities of the cornea, much diluted; dissection wounds, or scratches exposed to the dead body in dissection, &c. The strength of the remedy in the several cases must depend upon the judgment of the practitioner. It may not be amiss, in conclusion, to repeat the caution given at the commencement of this treatise, against the in- discreet employment of the Tincture. If applied to a part too frequently, or too strong, it may cause the skin to inflame, a,nd the cuticle to blister, but that is the only inconvenience which has ever occurred from its use. FINIS. M.infrcOLUS, pinSi-KUS, iw, BIsnOPSGATF. ST.U.iwl WITHIN.$