Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton.

  • Baynton, Thomas, 1761-1820.
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive account of a new method of treating old ulcers of the legs / By Thomas Baynton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3(5 ) of its remedy be admitted, vve shall be no longer at a loss to account for the success which attends an application of these means ; whether applied to recent ulcers where parts are merely retraded, and where it is only necessary to bring them into contad to obtain cures by inosculation, which is the most desirable event, as it saves time and enables us to arm the part with its original shield ; or whether loss of substance has been sus¬ tained, and the edges and surfaces of the ulcers have been kept so long asunder as to occasion their death, and at length the habitual repetition of the ulcerative process ; or whether cures have been prevented by the inadivity of the absorbents, as happens to the ulcers of aged people attended with thickened edges.