The treatment of wounds, ulcers, and abscesses.

  • Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The treatment of wounds, ulcers, and abscesses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    long continued, the granulations are very apt to become oedeniatous, and one form of weak ulcer is thus estab- lished. On the other hand, where the granulations become ojdematous, dry dressings—the boracic lint well wrung out of boracic lotion, without the interposition of any protective—are probably the best. The other method of dressing ulcers is the use of various ointments, of which those chiefly employed are boracic ointment, eucalyptus ointment, or iodoform ointment. As a rule, I do not think that the wounds heal so kindly, when they are at all extensive, under oint- ments as they do under the protective and boracic lint dressing, and certainly they do not heal well under bor- acic ointment of the ordinary pharmacopceial strength. Where the wound is healing rapidly and boracic oint- ment is used, the pharmacopceial ointment should be diluted to about a half or a quarter of its strength, pro- bably the best is about a quarter strength. The strong boracic ointment seems to interfere with the epithelial growth, and is therefore unsuitable in such cases. It acts, however, very well in tlie early stage of the treat- ment of ulcers, Ijefore epithelial growth has begun at the edges of the wound. A fourth object in the treatment of ulcers, which is common to all, is that attempts should be made to get rapid healing with as little contraction as possible, and