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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Credit: The treatment of surgical inflammations by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the severest, have, I believe, an osteal origin. The severity of the joint disease also depends on the degree of ostitis. If the ostitis be slight or moderate, it and its attendant, articular disease, are mostly not difficult to cure. If it advances to caries, the articular symp- toms are correspondingly more acute, and the treat- ment is more difficult. In this place I can only throw out these few suggestions on a subject upon which, at another time, I may have much more to say. Synovitis. In speaking of the more acute varieties of synovitis, excluding at present those cases where suppuration is present, the treatment to be described refers to the knee. In these cases, as an active, quickly acting, and superficial counter-irritant, nitrate of silver, in a strong solution, is very convenient and singularly sue- i cessful. The front and sides of the knee, and a third of the anterior aspects of the thigh and leg, should be moistened twice or thrice with moderate freedom. The joint should be compressed with fine cotton wool and a bandage, and the limb fixed with a light gutta percha or other splint,* and at the same time a little * I find a very convenient mode of applying a gutta perclia splint for any purpose, to be this : The gutta percha having been cut something larger (because of contraction in hot water) than the required shape, is enveloped in two layers of calico sewn at the margins. It can then, by immersion in boiling water, be made as soft as dough, and can be readily applied without being pulled out of shape or sticking to the fingers. Complete softness when applied is the secret of success.