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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    other fores; between recent wounds of the legs, occafioncd by fome accident, and thofe made on any other part of the body : iomtj; reafon there mud be, for the additional trouble in healing the former, as well as the greater difficulty with which they are afterwards preferved in that ftate. This is effentially neceffary if we would eftablifh a rational practice, and fo far as this end is kept in view, it is hoped, an attempt will not be accounted fuperliuous. It fcarcely needs to be obferved, that ulcers may be occafioned either by every external accident abra- ding the fkin,* or bruifing the parts underneath, in a certain habit of body, predifpofed to ulceration ; or by any internal caufe,^ exciting fuch inflammation in a part as fhall incline it to lnppurate, though no external iiuury has been received : fuch are fevers of different kimfc. To thefe fliould be added negled:, or mifmanagement, when an abicefs is formed, by which a fimple wound is converted into an ulcer, or continual fore of the part. Thefe are briefly the caufes of ulcers in general, and where no fgecific contagion prevails in the habit, are all that need to be confidered. In thofe of the legs, indeed, we are farther led to remark the ftate and circumftances of the limb, which being a depending and an extreme part of the body, may be regarded as a particular and predifpofing * Ulcus eft continui folutio ab eroftone facia.—Gai.en. f Ulceris cauf* vel intern* funt, vel extern*.—Parey. caufe.