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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    m ( 6 )- In the Wesr-India Islands the disease happens so frequently from the bites of insects and other slight causes in the crop season, and proves so very unmanageable as to occasion as much or more real distress to the Africans, and sometimes to the natives, than many of the endemial diseases found in those pestilential regions. It appears also certain that as no condition * * of life or variety of situation affords a secure exemption from its occurrence, so also that the remedies hitherto discovered have been found not only tedious, troublesome and uncertain, but have generally failed to accomplish lasting cures. The following pages will point out a new one, so simple. so