On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
Date:
1876
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Credit: On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire. 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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    trating serous secretion may be proved by repeating an experiment which I have often had occasion to make in prosecuting microscopical researches into the minute anatomy of the morbid skin. I have been in the habit often of preserving small portions of skin (removed by operation) in glycerine, so as i to preserve them from putrefaction till I had leisure * to examine them. It will be found that in a short time a piece of skin so immersed has undergone » * throughout the whole of its thickness a very marked change in its physical characters. It has lost its whiteness and its opacity, and become of a light yellowish-brown colour and semi-transparent, assuming the aspect but not acquiring quite the hardness of a piece of dried tendon ; at the same time it has become curled up at the corners. It feels very considerably harder than before. If cut with a knife, it “ cuts ” something like slightly warm glue or like an old and somewhat hardened piece of candied orange-peel, which, on the whole, it rather resembles ; at the same time it has notably diminished in size. In fact, the glycerine has almost completely deprived it of all its water, which has become diffused throughout the glycerine, while the glycerine itself has thereby become accurately