Additional observations on the nitrate of silver : with full directions for its use as a therapeutic agent / by John Higginbottom.

  • Higginbottom, John, 1788-1876.
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Additional observations on the nitrate of silver : with full directions for its use as a therapeutic agent / by John Higginbottom. 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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    afterwards with water alone, to remove any par- ticle of soap remaining. It is very essential to know the precise cfTect of the nitrate of silver in the different degrees of its application. If the nitrate of silver be passed once slightly over the moistened skin of any part, except the hands or soles of the feet (on which the cuticle is thicker than elsewhere) it induces an eschar, simply; if it be passed over the surface twice or thrice, to the eschar will be added some vesica- tion ; if more frequently still, there will be vesication only. In the first case there is no pain; in the second and last there is soreness proportionate to the degree of vesication. Little vesication may be induced on the first day ; on the second day there is often more vesication; on the third the vesication appears stationary, or rather on the decline, and the swelling of the part has a puffy feel when pressed upon with the finger; on the fourth day the vesicles sud- denly disappear. If the vesicle be not previously broken, the eschared cuticle remains adherent until the new cuticle is formed, and is then cast off.