On the treatment of ulcers on the leg without confinement : with an inquiry into the best mode of effecting the permanent cure of varicose veins / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874
Date:
1848
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Credit: On the treatment of ulcers on the leg without confinement : with an inquiry into the best mode of effecting the permanent cure of varicose veins / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    fluence over these cases. Sir E. Home mentions that, in 1778, at a time when there were some hundreds of ulcers under treatment in the Naval Hospital at Plymouth, whenever the weather changed from dry to wet, the ulcers invariably assumed an unhealthy appearance, but put on a better aspect as soon as the weather became dry again. As with ulcers of a specific nature, in all cases where the constitutional malady predominates, it must first be treated, and its prejudicial influ- ence over the local affection counteracted, before the local treatment can be brought to bear effec- tively upon the ulcer; in many instances the con- stitutional and local measures may proceed hand in hand. As the medical treatment must be conducted on the general principle that in all local maladies we should endeavour to correct any evident derange- ment in the functions of the different organs of the body, and keep them in a state as much as possible approximating to that of health, it will be unnecessary to do more than touch upon the most prominent points connected with this branch of the subject. In ulcers of the leg characterized by atony— which constitute so large a majority of these cases
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