The treatment of surgical inflammations by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan.

  • Jordan, Furneaux, 1830-1911.
Date:
1870
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    frequently admit of removal by non-operative remedies. I firmly believe that remedies, based on the principles laid down in these pages, are more frequently, more certainly, and more rapidly successful than any hitherto in use. We are urgently called upon to attempt to subdue any inflammation which has not yet given rise to irretrievable local death, as in acute periostitis or acute ostitis, in their earliest stages, although the prospect may not be very encouraging. But the prospect is really very encouraging in a great number of cases of ostitis (especially of the extremi- ties of bones), in cases of commencing caries and actual caries in the young, and in cases of the less acute forms of periostitis. It is not amiss to note here that so-called hypertrophies of bone are almost invariably inflammatory diseases. Acute Periostitis. In the acute inflammation of bone shafts, which is rapidly followed by suppuration and necrosis, it is only in the earliest stages that treatment can be of service. To be of service at all it must be vigorous and pro- portionate to the violence of the disease. Should a case in its earliest stage come before me, I should apply the iodine liniment very extensively, frequently, and very freely to the tvhole limb. Chloroform would be desirable, the more so the younger the patient