The surgical treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood / by T. Holmes.
- Timothy Holmes
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The surgical treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood / by T. Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![beneficial, as it is not incompatible with any of the stimu- lants and tonics indicated by the nature of the malady, is not disagreeable to take, and produces no disgust of food, I am in the habit of adding it, in free doses, to some mixture containing diffusible stimulants in combination with a light tonic. Very frequent administration of small quantities of wine, brandy, and fluid nourishment appears to me, how- ever, to be of even more importance than medicine. When the gangrene has extended through the whole thickness of Recovery the cheek, it is said by some authorities to be a fatal sign. But this, ffJation'of as I have said above, depends in a great measure upon the rate of pro- the cheek, gress of the disease. Many cases are on record in which the child has recovered after the loss of large portions of the whole substance of the cheek. In such cases the deformity is often frightful; for the ulcerated surfaces of the cheek and gum adhere to each other, and the angle of the mouth is prolonged into a large irregular hiatus, with tough scarred sides adherent to the jaws. But in cases where the angle of the mouth [Fig. .r)7. Recovery from cancrum oris.] has not been involved in the destruction, but a hole merely has been punched through the cheek, there is often little or no deformity after the filling-up of the gap left by the separation of the slough. Of this a remarkable instance was under my care some time since, of which I append a representation from a photograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20416325_0407.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
