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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    eschar; or when it is so situated as to render it impossible that the eschar should remain undisturbed, as between the toes, unless, indeed, the patient be confined to his bed;—or in cases at- tended by much inflammation, or by much oedema. I have found no kind of caustic so manageable as the lunar caustic; and this is best applied in the solid form. I have thought too, that the newly pre- pared lunar caustic is more apt to dis- solve on being applied than that wliich has been longer made and more exposed to the air; the latter is therefore to be preferred.