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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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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    By this means we have complete control over the disease. If the disease be attended by vesi- cation, the vesicles should be broken, and the solution of the nitrate of silver applied on the denuded parts ; but if the vesicles arise from the use of the nitrate of silver, they may be allowed to remain undisturbed. In erysipelas of the face, when it is spreading on the forehead, or at all on the scalp, the head should be shaved as early as possible, that the extent of inflammation may be traced on the scalp, which often can only be detected by pain, or by oedema being felt on pressure with the finger. The solution requires to be applied very freely all over the scalp, where it scarcely or never produces vesication. When the inflammation has been subdued by an early use of the nitrate of silver, the constitu- tional symptoms are immediately relieved. They are aggravated by the least increase of local in- flammation. Even in idiopathic erysipelas, there is no period of the disease when the nitrate of silver may not be applied with advantage. I have never in any case seen metastasis or any other bad effect