An essay on the application of the lunar caustic, in the cure of certain wounds and ulcers / by John Higginbottom.

  • Higginbottom John, 1788-1876.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on the application of the lunar caustic, in the cure of certain wounds and ulcers / by John Higginbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    t I it soon subsides in every case, and then [ the patient enjoys gi*eater ease than ( would be experienced under any other mode of treatment. Little or no pain is caused on applying the caustic after evacuating the subjacent fluid of an un- adherent eschar. Altogether the pain I inflicted by the caustic is far less than is generally imagined, and forms scarce- ly an obstacle to its employment. ^ It may be proper, in this place, to b I notice such circumstances as render the i It employment of the caustic improper or >fi inefiicient. It is improper to employ '' the caustic when the ulcer is too large ^ to admit of the formation of a complete