On a new mode of treatment employed in the cure of various forms of ulcer and granulating wounds / by Frederic C. Skey.

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872.
Date:
1837
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Credit: On a new mode of treatment employed in the cure of various forms of ulcer and granulating wounds / by Frederic C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    judiced by an apparently overweening confidence on rny part, than from any distrust of the future, confirming the confidence I entertain in the proposed remedy, that I hesitate to avow my unqualified belief in its competence to invariably supersede all operations, in the treatment and removal of non-specific ulcers. With a careful diagnosis, a discriminating and judicious employment of the means, I believe, henceforth, the knife will be wholly unjustifiable. Had I been actuated by any other motive, than that of communicating to my professional brethren, and through them to the public, an efficient means of curing an ob- noxious and often loathsome disease, I should have selected for my subject, one more aristocratic in the circle of its influence, and necessarily more profitable in its treat- ment. As a remedy against a disease, the ravages of which, if not moi-e injurious to life, are at least more destructive to its occupations; to its physical duties; to the means of maintaining and upholding its best resources, and of extending its comforts, than any other that flesh is heir to—it claims a trial. These are not times when a man can safely substitute a spurious popularity, for a well earned estimation with