Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / [J.G.F. Hassel].

  • Hassel, J. G. F.
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[1827]
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Credit: Cases illustrative of the beneficial effects of the clorurets of oxides of sodium and calcium, of the Chevalier Labarraque, of Paris : being the most powerful and effectual general and local antiseptics in the practice of physic and surgery / [J.G.F. Hassel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES, fyc. fyc. Case 1st. In the month of December, 1824, I was called to Robert Burdett, Esq. of a full habit, aged 60, whose constitution had been much impaired by luxurious living; l found the patient in a high fever, caused by a very painful carbuncle in his neck, about the size of a small plate. A practitioner having mistaken the case for a common Boil, desired the patient to poultice the part for several days; this did not succeed. On my arrival I found no less than seven or eight apertures scattered over the surface of the carbuncle, through which a dark yellow greenish bloody and irritating foetid ichor issued ; and in less than twenty-four hours the inflammation had extended upwards over the whole t