A treatise upon ulcers of the legs : in which former methods of treatment are candidly examined and compared, with one more rational and safe, proving that a perfect cure may generally be effected more certainly, without rest and confinement, than by the strict regimen in common use, with an introduction on the process of ulceration and the origin of pus laudabile : to which are added hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors, and the mammary abscess and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A treatise upon ulcers of the legs : in which former methods of treatment are candidly examined and compared, with one more rational and safe, proving that a perfect cure may generally be effected more certainly, without rest and confinement, than by the strict regimen in common use, with an introduction on the process of ulceration and the origin of pus laudabile : to which are added hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors, and the mammary abscess and sore nipples of lying-in women / by Michael Underwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § This charafter may be very applicable to inkers in. general, and be quite fufficient as a diagnofis; but man/, important diftinftions are to be attended to, which rauft have confiderable influence in the treatment. It vyill;be. quite fufficient to hin-t at a few of them. I. An ulcer may be fimple, arifing from .i^xteimal qaufes merely. • ■ • •• ■ ' -ndOi ■ -II, It may be the confequence of, or be coi\ne£ted. with a bad habit of body; or, ^ III. It may be owing to fome fpecific contagion, . IV. The fituation alfo of ulcers, dpferves our atten-- tlon. They may affedt the furfaces of parts, in, the-: manner of an erylipelas; or partake more of the na- a materia erodente ortum habens. Difierunt nifnirum in eo vulnus ec ulcus, quod in vulnere faltem eft foluta unitas, nihil vero necef- fario de parte amlffum eft; in ulcere vero femper aliquid de parte affedla imminutum et amilTum eft, fi non plus, faltem cuticula. Serinertus: lib. 5. pars 2. *'^ Sunt autem ulcera partiiim folidarum, aique mollium cum cavitate quadara minorii, ichorem tenuem, fal- futn 'et acrem fimdente, diflblutiones et erofiones, a fero extrava- fato, et corrupto originem ducentes. Hoffman, cap vi. § i. .It.is£yident how.ever, that Hoffman, andibme later writers, de- fign moreover by an ulcer, an old, or ill-conditioned abfcefs ; and there feems to be fome reafon for this diftinction, if we would fpeak with precifion ; for otherwife, every impoftumation, when burft or opened, as well as every wound after an operation, is equally an ulcer.—He therefore adds, Differunt ulcera ab abfceflibus, turn in hifce major, quam in illis deprehenditur cavitas, arque non tarn f4nics' aquofa, falfa et acris, quam potius pus laudabile, bene coc- tum a ftnguine, in partibus mufculofis ftagnante, et mora corrupto, g^gnitur; licet negari minime poterit, ulcera fiepe ex apoftematibus oriri, quae in principio mcri fuerunt abfceffus. § 2. ture