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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    of originality. And again, the conclusion touching the vitiated condition of the integuments appears to me most unwarrantable. Surely all this reasoning is unphysio- logical and unsound. Under the head of ulcers that are “ too weak to carry on the actions necessary for their recovery,” Sir E. Home has classed those which are characterised by large whitish gelatiniform granulations ; and properly so. These gra- nulations consist of little else than unorganised lymph. They are bloodless and insensible to the touch. They indicate an excess of the material in its unwrought state, which has been too copiously deposited by the arteries to allow of the process of nutrition or organisation. On a large ulcerated surface, otherwise moderately healthy, many granulations will occasionally exhibit this character, and they will be found to assume it in propor- tion to their magnitude: the smaller the size, the greater their manifestation of health. This condition of an ulcer may be taken as an indica- tion that the powers of secretion and nutrition are below par, that they are not competent to the completion of the task assigned to them, without the aid of artificial excite- ment. There is no description of granulation so easily and so rapidly formed, and, possessing little vitality, none is so easily removed by the absorbents; an attack of diarrhoea or slight local pressure, destroying a large crop in the course of a few hours. They are formed in large masses