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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    think that it is a matter of very great importance, because it is seldom that one eradicates the disease completely, however thorough the scraping and cauteri- sation, and the result is that a tubercular deposit forms under the skin graft, and the condition is reproduced. I do not propose to go fully into all the methods of treatment of lupus, and have only referred to the two chief methods which I should myself employ in most cases of lupoid ulceration. In cases where we have to do with isolated nodules of lupus, I believe the employ- ment of Unna's salicylic and creosote plasters according to his directions-—that is to say, using the strong plaster for two to three weeks, and subsequently allowing the wound to heal under the mild plaster—is probably preferable to the method of scraping out the individual nodules and burning the cavity with nitrate of silver, or to the other methods, such as scarification, &c., which are sometimes employed. As regards the condition of scrofuloderma, the treat- ment must be similar, but in most cases I think that scraping and cauterisation yield a fairly satisfactory result. As regards syphilitic ulcers, I need say practically nothing. Their treatment, of course, is the treatment of the constitutional condition, and they will usually heal rapidly if only large enough doses of iodide of