A memoir on indolent ulcers, and their surgical treatment / by John Gay.

  • Gay, John, 1812-1885.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A memoir on indolent ulcers, and their surgical treatment / by John Gay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    skin is to be accomplished by incisions, made, at light angles to the manifest line of tension; this being, in ulcers of the leg, usually in the line of shortest superficial area, viz., transversely to its long axis. If the ulcer be small, one incision, on the side cor- responding to that of the greatest tension, will suffice; but ii large, one on either side will be required, as in Fig. 2, of the adjoining woodcut. * Moreover, if the ulcer should commence healing, Fig. 1. Fig. 2. but, as in some cases which have come un- der my care, should cease to proceed as soon as the sup- plemental incisions shall have cica- trised, fresh inci- sions will have to be made, the sur- geon being guided, as to their situation, according to the seat and direction rof the tension which remains; for this tension must die relieved, or the ulcer will not permanently heal. Again, as in other cases which have come under my eai e, should the ulcer heal and one or both incisions Since writing the above, I have adopted curved instead of straight ncisions.