Observations on Mr. Baynton's method of treating ulcers on the legs / [W. Simmons].

  • Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Observations on Mr. Baynton's method of treating ulcers on the legs / [W. Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these cases was a burden on the charity every winter, Ulcers thus situated have received different appellations indicative of their peculiar nature; as carious, scrofulous, scorbutic, venereal, and cancerous, from being combined with caries, scrofula, scurvy, cancer or the venereal poison ; or from being attended with fungus, sinus, callous edges, or a varicose state of the veins, forming the fungous, callous,varicose, or sinuous ulcer. Their description and appropriate treatment will be found detailed in chirurgical writers as governed by the prevailing opinions at the respective pe- riods of their publications. It not uncommonly happens that a combina- tion of the different kinds of ulcer takes place, and that the callous is attendant on a specific morbid action. The latter may be removed, and yet the ulcer be intractable from assuming the former character, Whatever plan of treatment be a- dopted, it appears evidently the intention to re- duce it to the state of a simplevulcer, and in this form, or when attended with callus, the plan of treatment recommended by Mr, Baynton will, I apprehend, be extremely proper. The author has not referred it to any particular species of ulcer.