An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley].

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs, without rest, exemplified by a varitey of cases, in which laborious exercise was used during the cures / [William Rowley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t>r in very foul Ulcers, which have a foetid difcharge, 1 have fucceeded by giving the Calomel, from three to five grains, every night in a pill, and every third morning a gentle cathartic; at the fame time I have fumigated the Ulcer with Cinnabar and iEthiops mineral equal parts; and in this manner I have fuccefsfully cured fome few* obftinate cafes, where my method and others have failed; and in other cafes where the Ulcers were very large, callous and foul, in order to reduce it to a more fimple ftate the fooner, I have ufed the Fumigation, and I am of opinion with fuccefs; but it muft not be ufed in any inflammatory cafe, as it will put the patient to much pain, encreafe the inflammation, and not anfwer any curative intention whatever. The procuring an artificial difcharge by means of an Iflue, notwithftanding it is al mo fl¬ an univerfal practice, I muft pofitiveJy de¬ clare, that I have never made ufe of this imaginary afliftance; and yet I flatter my- felf, that my fuccefs has been much greater than thofe who have ufed it. The trifling o difcharge