Observations on the causes and treatment of ulcerous diseases of the leg / by J.C. Spender.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Observations on the causes and treatment of ulcerous diseases of the leg / by J.C. Spender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    200 a reason for perpetuating the sore, so much as a reason for employing every effort to rid the system of the poison, so that an outlet may be no longer required. Now, if we have ground for believing that ulcers of the leg may almost always be safely healed, this may be converted into a positive argu- ment that they ought to be so; because, if they do no good, they must do harm. They are not only painful, disgusting, and inconvenient, but are injurious, both by the unnecessary draining of the body, and by the irritation which they are apt to excite in the system. The fashion of accounting for local diseases by a constitutional origin, has, in a degree, blinded us to another truth, the converse of that, equally correct, and almost equally important; viz. that constitutional disturbance frequently results from local causes. Before concluding this Volume, it may, perhaps, be necessary to anticipate an objection which will possibly suggest itself to some readers. It may be said that I stated in the Preface that it was