'Scraping' in surgery / by T. Pridgin Teale.

  • Thomas Pridgin Teale
Date:
1880
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Credit: 'Scraping' in surgery / by T. Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “SCRAPING” IN SURGERY. By T. Pridgin Teale, M.A. Oson, F.R.C.S., Consulting Surgeon to the General Infirmary at Leeds. It is only in recent years that surgeons have recognised how great a power they have acquired over indolent unhealing surfaces by the introduction .of the scraper. We are mainly indebted to Volckmann, who, in the “ spoon ” called by his name, has put into our hands an instrument by which indolent granulations, the lining of sinuses and abscesses, unhealthy ulcerating surfaces, lupoid ulcers, and even malignant growths, can be roughly rasped away, leaving a sound surface well supplied with blood-vessels, and disposed to fall into rapid healing. To the out-patient departments of hospitals this new power should be an inestimable boon. Cases of strumous sores and sinuses, and ulcerated legs, which reappeared week after week, and month after month, can now, by the expenditure of two or three weeks in hospital, be turned out healed, or so far advanced in healing that a week or two of home care will com- plete the cure. Even ophthalmic surgeons are falling under the spell of this new power, and are learning to compress, within a few days, the treatment of cases which often dragged on a weary course of attendance for months. Such are tinea tarsi, uloers of the cornea and granular lids, eczematous ulceration of nostrils, lips, and eyelids. This is a general statement of the subject which forms the heading of this paper. Let me now enter more into particular details.
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