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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ulcers, authors have always been obhged to com- mence with the healthy condition of the suppu- rating surface, or, in other words, to commence with what they term a healthy ulcer.” . . . “ Be- tween simple suppurating surfaces recently pro- duced in a healthy subject, by a wound or a burn, and which have a tendency to heal readily, and suppurating sores which manifest little or no disposition to cover themselves with a cicatrix, a great variety of morbid phenomena exists, which it is necessary to distinguish one from the others, because they require different and even opposite modes of treatment.” If an appeal to general experienee were not sufficiently conclusive on the point, a reference to the cases narrated by all who have written on the subject would prove that ulcers of the lower ex- tremity, as a class, not only belong to that extreme grade, in Dr. Thomson’s scale, of “ suppurating sores which manifest little or no disposition to cover themselves with a cicatrix,” but are extreme examples of it. Whatever may have been their origin, however various their aspect, the one feature by which they are distinguished from ulcers of other parts of the body, is an inaptitude to heal under treatment which ordinarily proves successful in suppurating surfaces oecurring elsewhere. It is from this circumstanee, and the degree to which
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