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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    SURGICAL INFLAMMATIONS. I FREQUENCY OF SURGICAL INFLAMMATIONS—VARIETIES OF TREATMENT. The great majority of diseases which, the surgeon treats are of an inflammatory character. They form a large proportion of any surgical nomenclature, they form a still larger proportion of the cases in actual practice. If we look at the diseases of the cutaneous structures, we shall find that the frequency of cancer, nrnvus, and warts, is slight, contrasted with the fre- quency of abscess, boil, carbuncle, onychia, paronychia, erysipelas, and the ulcers. In the bones, again, perios- titis, acute and chronic, ostitis, necrosis, caries, abscess, sclerosis, preponderate numerically over rickets, mollifies, tumours, and cancer. It is so, more or less, with all the organs, the diseases of which fall to the lot of the surgeon to treat. I have taken some pains to ascertain the percentage ol inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases in