Volume 1

Observations on some of the more important diseases of women / By James Blundell. Edited by Thomas Castle.

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Observations on some of the more important diseases of women / By James Blundell. Edited by Thomas Castle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other hand, this swelling is only a part of a general dropsy of the whole habit, then, as you all know, the puncturing of the skin is attended with some little danger, because, sometimes, mortification may ensue ; so where the constitution is vigorous, puncture if you please; but where it is not, and where there is a disposition to general dropsy, it is better to refrain from the lancet. If you do puncture, do not content yourselves, as some have done, with the mere division of the scarf-skin, but take care that you carry your lancet completely down into the cellular web beneath. # SECTION LX. EXCRESCENCES OF THE VULVA. From the vulva, not infrequently, excrescences are growing, sometimes verrucous, sometimes fleshy, and varying exceedingly in size, being as large as a pea, or as large as the fist, and of all the intermediate dimensions. Of these excrescences, some may be removed by caustic, red precipitate, savin powder, nitrate of silver, or the like, care being taken to apply the caustic to the root of the excrescence, for this seems to be the most effective mode of application. ‘Those excrescences which resemble polypi, may be removed by ligature; if they hang by a peduncle, the application of the ligature is easy; if they have a broad basis, then take a needle and place it on the middle of a thread of proper thickness, and carry the needle through the basis of the excrescence, and cut ee * A flannel wrung out of some emollient fomentation, and applied to the parts when they have been scarified, will contribute to the easy and perfect discharge of the fluids. Dr. Denman, p. 31. It is not unusual! for these swellings to return two or three times towards the conclusion of pregnancy; in which case, or even in the time of labour, the scarification, if necessary, may be repeated. Ibid,