On a new mode of treatment employed in the cure of various forms of ulcer and granulating wounds / [Frederic C. Skey].

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872
Date:
1837
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Credit: On a new mode of treatment employed in the cure of various forms of ulcer and granulating wounds / [Frederic C. Skey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subsequent treatise; but it is necessary to my purpose that I state his general views. He conceives that the difficult return of blood from the lower extremities in- creases the quantity of the circulating fluid in the neigh- bourhood of the disease ; that, to relieve themselves, the arteries pour out lymph. between the interstices of the muscles; that the absorbents are weakened in their action _ by being mechanically separated from the arteries and deprived of their “arterial impulse.” “And it appears certain,” says he, ‘“‘that such deficiency of power is a consequence of that diseased state of the common integu. ments of the limb, which failed to preserve parts in their natural situation.” | The principle on which the application of the bandage is suggested by him is that, in recent cases of “ approxi- mating retracted parts,” and affording a temporary sub- stitute for the healthy integument, while in the more chronic form of. the disease, “the remedy produces its good effects by preventing the greater deposition of that mucilaginous fluid which is constantly supplied to the interstices of the cellular membrane, for the purpose of its | lubrication, than the absorbents can remove.” To me, I confess, all this borders on the mysterious. That lymph may be deposited in the celiular interstices of muscles, who can doubt ?—but the idea that this de- position can form an ulcer, by the mechanical separation of the absorbents and the arteries, has at least the merit