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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    in ho [pit als as to private patients; it being im- poffible furgeons fhould vifit the former every day, much lets drefs every bad ulcer with their own hands. Such fores muft therefore be com- mitted to pupils, many of whom come to London, and indeed too many leave it, pofleffed of fo little knowledge or attention, that whenever any matter muft be fubmitted to their difcre- tion and care, (of which the application of tight bandage is a moft important one) it is well if patients do not conftantly fuffer by itr Not that the plan, indeed, is incapable of very extenfive ufefulnefs, even in holpitals and dif- penfaries, if furgeons would do their part in Superintending and directing the pupils, order- ing proper rollers, and advifing patients to walk, and efpecially, would they become lels timid in their ufe of the precipitate. As an in- ftance, the author has Mr. Pearfons permiffion % to fay, that fince the winter of 1783, fome hundred patients have been cured upon this plan, under his dire&ion, at the Lock Hofpital and Carcy-Street Difpenfary; many of whole ulcers were very large, fome extending nearly round the leg, and of many years ftanding. But howfoever the peculiar advantages of this plan may, in any inftance, be lefl'ened, it is lubmitted, with incrcafcd confidence, to the atten-