General report with statistical tables of the patients under treatment in the wards of the Highgate Infirmary, from October 1st, 1870, to September 30th, 1871 / by Thomas Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch.
Date:
1871
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Credit: General report with statistical tables of the patients under treatment in the wards of the Highgate Infirmary, from October 1st, 1870, to September 30th, 1871 / by Thomas Stretch Dowse. 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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    Y cannot help biinging before your notice the want of a hot- air room with appliances, after the manner of a Turkish Turkish Baths, bath, I feel sure that it would prove of great service, and well repay the outlay of money for its erection and maintenance. Of Ulcerated Legs, I have had a large number under uioeratedLegs. treatment, and I am happy to say the result has been in the majority of instances most satisfactory. Cases of many years’ standing have left the building perfectly cured; some, however, are so entirely due to constitutional causes that they ^viIl not yield to treatment. I consider the advantages of this Asylum particularly adapted to this class of Disease. For the treatment of an Ulcerated Leg Treatment of there are required specific diet, perfect rest, as well as regidar and carefid dressing. There is no wound in surgical practice requiring more thoughtful care and skilful treatment than this, and what makes it more unfortimate for persons so aflflicted is, that they are denied the advantages of a bed in almost all London Hospitals. Cases of Paralysis.—These are increasing in numbers partaysis. weekly. I have set apart No. 11 Ward for this class of Disease, but at present there are more than enough to fiU it. Shower Baths and Galvanism are brought into requisition in their treatment. I am sorry, however, to state that of nearly all the Diseases in the building these are the most intractable. Scrofidous cases are unlimited, and those chiefly coming scrofula, under my care require Surgical treatment—as Sores and Diseased Joints. These are much more hlcely to be bene- fited in this Institution than at any Infinnary in London, let its ventilation be what it may. Whilst remarking upon