Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton.

  • Baynton, Thomas, 1761-1820.
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not be perceived by what gradations the practice was brought to its present state ; and some further application of its principles to other diseases might be overlooked. I shall therefore give a short account of the motives which induced me first to adopt it, and the effects then observed. About the commencement of the year 1792, after having experienced repeated disappointments in my endeavours to obtain permanent cures for some patients with whom I had taken more than common pains, % and for whom I had tried rest in an horizon- % tal posture, ^exercise, precipitate,f bandages;}; * See Bell’s Treatise on Ulcers. f Underwood’s Treatise on Ulcers of the Legs. + Else’s Method of ■treating sore Legs.