Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood].

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs : together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors ; and the mammary-abscesses, and sore nipples of lying-in women / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to found theory, as it is fupported kby fnccefs and experience. Before I quit the fubjedt of internal remedies* I cannot avoid taking notice of an inflammation too frequently terminating in dangerous fuppuration, or gangrene, that has not, I believe, had that attention paid to it which it deferves; I mean, the cafe of punc- ture by an invenomed inflrument. This misfortune ufually falls to the lot of medical people, when em- ployed in opening dead bodies, and on other occa- flons fomewhat flmilar; and has too often proved fatal. Such accidents appear to me to be frequently very 1 ill treated from the beginning, by purging, bleeding, and other antiphlogiftic remedies, to the exclufion of the only proper, and very oppoflte means, that of invigorating the fyflem. I have known feveral fuch cafes treated in- the firfl-mentioned way, and all of them followed by great local mifchiefs, and fome have even ended fatally. Whereas, in others, where there have been evident marks of infection, and ab- forption of the poifon, along the courfe of the lym- phatic, the evil has been flopped, and the perfon been perfectly well the next day, by the oppoflte treatment. The beft remedy of this kind, I believe, is wine, which Ihould be partaken of freely, accord- ing to the conftitution and habits of the patient, and if had recourfe to on the day of the accident, or any time before rigor, lownefs, thirfl, or other fymptom of affedfion of the fyflem have taken place, will ge- nerally prevent farther infedtion, by flirring up the vires jnedicatrices naturae to expel the poifon. This P may