The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions on the leg, without confinement / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions on the leg, without confinement / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10] water, in conjunction with gentle support, (ac- cording to Baynton’s method, or by the simpler means I have indicated,) will, in nine cases out of ten, relieve a moderate degree of irritabihty. But when present in excess, and especially when the temperature and vitality are below the natural standard, the sore will not tolerate cold, nor can the lowest grade of compression be borne until this morbid aflFection of nerve has been subdued. EmoUient and soothing measures, with rest, vrill generally accomplish this; but in some inve- terately fretful specimens of the disease, they pro- duce the very opposite effect, actually exciting a much higher extreme of irritability;* and such means, under any circumstances, exclusively resorted to, are very apt to weaken still more the tone of the capillaries, and render them incapable of carrying on those operations which are essential to healthy granulation. The great desideratum appeared to me to be, a combination of these apparently incompatible measures, if they could be brought to act in unison; a method by which the morbidly irritable nerves might be soothed, and gradually inured to the compression requisite for the sup- port of the vessels and of the part generally. Instead of abandoning support and recurring * “ I have seen some (irritable ulcers), says Dr. CoUes, where a mild poultice almost set the patient mad with pain.”—Lectm'es, p. 95.