Observations in surgery / by Benjamin Travers, jun.

  • Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Observations in surgery / by Benjamin Travers, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a superadded irritation. In the unhealthy this remedy will seriously aggravate the local disorder long before it can provoke such an action as shall prove an insurmountable barrier to the further spread of the disease. The constitutional treatment of an erysipelas involves very careful and vigilant superintendence, together with some power of discrimination on the part of the surgeon. It is very important to obtain at an early period some clear notion of Nature's wiU or purpose in the course of the complaint. In the plethoric or intemperate, it is ordinarily the consequence of a direct sympathy with dis- ordered mucous surfaces and vitiated secretions, ushered in by fever, or, if traumatic, by sickness and shiverings such as might be expected when disease attacks a highly sentient tissue. Suppura- tion is the natural crisis of such a condition, and it is wise rather to check and control its extent under such circumstances than to attempt any more violent mode of repression. The age, con- dition, and previous habits of life, must be weU considered; if the latter have been intemperate, or irregular, it is certain that large or sudden eva- cuations must be avoided. The centres are m no condition to support such measures; and where it is probable that much spoiled material must be replaced, or breaches of tissue repaired, as when S llnlar substance sloughs, or is infiltrated and morbidly thickened, the powers of life should from