On the treatment of wounds : clinical lectures / by Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1878
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Credit: On the treatment of wounds : clinical lectures / by Sampson Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    properties, of cliecking the decomposition whicli was sure to occur in some degree as the result of the very severe contusion. The effect of the styptic colloid application could not have been more satisfactory. That agent was invented in 1867, C) by my friend Dr. B. W. Eichardson, F.E.S. It is produced by saturating ether entirely with tannin and a colloidal substance, xyloidine or gun cotton, a little tincture of benzoin bemg finally admixed. When it has been on for a few days, styptic colloid dressing often peels off easily as a dry shell, leaving the parts beneath perfectly healthy. If the dressing be adherent, care must be taken to remove it so as not to disturb the subjacent parts, and not to give pain. This may be done by dropping on the dry colloid dressing, for a few minutes, a mixture of alcohol and ether, or equal parts of absolute alcohol and distilled water, warmed to a little above the heat of the body. ^ Vic/e Dr. B. W. Eichardson, in Medical Times and Gazette^ 1867, Vol. I, p. 383 et scq. On a New Styptic and Adhesive Fluid- Styptic Colloid, and on Healing by the First Intention. The styptic colloid is prepared, after Dr. Richardson's instructions, by Messrs. Eobbins & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, Oxford Street, London,