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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    ]50 of sleep by the pain she suffered, and scarcely able to stand. dime 30th.—I directed her to cleanse the sur- face from a coating of red ointment and scales, with a weak solution of Carbonate of soda, and a bread poultice, applying first, three leeches to the original ulcer. Prescribed, also, saline aperients and alteratives. On the day following, I strapped the leg with linen bands soaked in warm Goulard lotion, enjoining frequent affusion therewith; and two days afterwards, the heat and pain having subsided, this was changed for a lotion of Creasote and Glycerine. The leeches were twice repeated to the large sore; in a week the greater part of the inflamed skin was sound, and five of the six small ulcers were healed. Aug. 12.—The two remaining ulcers cicatrized. The whole of the skin sound, but still somewhat red and tender. Ordered the surface to be washed with a solution of Chloride of hme, and the straps and bandage to be moistened with the same, under which the skin soon recovered its natural tint and firmness. Case XX. Mrs. T , a tall, spare woman about 50, consulted me July 22, 1852, with a large super-