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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    c « INTRODUCTION. per means to regulate the effeCts of exercife, rather than to aim at a cure fome other way, by fub- verting the order of nature, and depriving the patient, for a time, of a neceffary mean of fupporting, 6r re- covering his health; which pernicious cuftom, it is prefumed, is one principal occafion of the difficulty in queiiion. It may be neceffary to paufe here, to take fome notice of certain objections made to this mode of reafoning, particularly by the Editors of the Critical Review. It fliould feem, that fome of their ftriCtures have arifen either from my having expreffed myfelf inaccurately, or from fome miftake on their part; or it is not likely they would have adduced the inftance of the divifion of the facro-fciatic nerve of a frog, m oppofition to the theory I had ventured to advance. By this indance they would intimate, that great ner- vous energy is not fo neceffary in order to the healing of ulcers on the lower extremities, as I am fuppofed to have imagined ; and that “ my theory is therefore fallacious, and the confequences drawn from it, 4,6 erroneous/’ I fhall not flop here to make any remarks on the cold blood of this aquatic, as rendering it an impro- per in dance for illuftrating the fubjeCt in difpute, but fhall only point out what my pofition has uni- formly been, viz. that the circulation of the blood in the lower extremities is too languid for the purpofe of due incarnation, and the fpeedy healing of fores feated upon them. That fuch a languor actually exifls, befides a variety of other evidences, is demon- ftrable