Practical observations on the cure of wounds and ulcers on the legs without rest : illustrated with cases / by Thomas Whately.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of wounds and ulcers on the legs without rest : illustrated with cases / by Thomas Whately. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    order to produce an exfoliation of it. The internal surface of this little exfoliation was from the aftion of the caustic, perfectly black; but the border at the top of it, and its external surface was quite white. All the other exfoliated bones represented in this plate, excepting such as were stained by the pus or blood, were for the most part either white, or of a yellowish white. The pieces of the cancelli were not steeped in water after they were extracted; and from that cause they retained a deeper stain from the insinuation of blood into their pores, than the other discoloured bones.