Observations on the injurious tendency of extreme depletion in inflammatory disorders : with remarks on the remedial agency of the vapour bath in acute and chronic diseases : illustrated by cases / by Edward Daniell, surgeon.

  • Daniell, Edward, 1795-1865.
Date:
1833
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    from impurities, and be excited to a more healthy condition, exercising thereby a vigorous disposition to heal such ulcer- ations, or other states of disorder, which may be found upon it. In syphilitic cases where mercury has been employed be- yond a certain point, the sore no longer is syphilitic but mer- curial, the ulcer at this crisis assumes a red colour; the white appearance, which is the healthy character, during the healing influence of the mercurial course, is exchanged for a fiery, jagged, and irregular looking ulcer, which spreads with rapidity, corroding and destroying the parts, involving the constitution, and producing a state of disorder oftentimes exceedingly dangerous. The Vapour Bath will here be found an admirable adjunct, using only those cautions as it regards the general condition of the patient, which have been so frequently dilated upon in the course of this work. In phagedaenic sores, although much will depend upon constitutional treatment, still great advantages would result from the use of the Vapour Bath, both as a direct agent in cleansing the ulceration, and as an universal stimulant and promoter of secretion. It certainly may be doubted how far external agency will benefit these obstinate and disagreeable cases, but an instance of a very curious kind will be found in one of the London hospital reports, inserted in The Lancet, showing the phagedaenic progress of a common flesh wound, supposed to assume that character from contact with a diseased subject in the same ward.* If this be the case, and so formidable a disease could be induced from the * The phagedaenic character, which this sore so suddenly assumed, has excited the attention of several speculative theorists, and by one it was considered to be occasioned by the contamination of the air from an exten- sive ulcer of rather an unhealthy character, occurring in a child admitted about a fortnight previously, in an opposite bed.—Lancet, vol. ix. p. 49(3.