Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel.

  • Hassel J. G. F.
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[1827]
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Credit: Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / by J. G. F. Hassel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    exhibited a most favourable aspect; a few emollient poultices were now applied, which brought away the remainder of the matter and sloughy cellular substance. The common dressing, due attention to the patient’s bowels, and a generous diet, soon filled up the excavations in the neck with healthy granulations, and in less than a month he perfectly recovered. Case 2d. In January, 1827, a young woman, named Josephine, aged 25, of a sanguine temperament, was admitted into the Boulogne Civil and Military Hospital, which is superintended by two experienced medical practitioners, namely, Messrs. Goree and Rouxel, both Doctors of Medicine and Surgery. This patient was afflicted with a sarcomatous Tu- mour, the size of a large orange, situated on the inside of her left thigh. Dr. Goree proposed the removal of this tumour by a surgical operation, to which Jthe patient not submitting, she was soon discharged. A few weeks after having quitted the Hospital, she received by accident a blow on this tumour with which she had been afflicted for