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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    ulcerated leg, which had baffled the repeated efforts made to heal it, during a considerable period. The patient was a man aged fifty-five. The ulcer, which was about three inches in diameter, occupied the outer side of the right leg, at one-third of the distance between the ancle and the knee. It was much excavated, and surrounded by an elevated mound of morbid integument. Its surface was pale and flabby, without the vestige of a granulation, and secreting a watery ichor. He had occupied a bed in the hospital for two months, and during this period the usual routine of remedies, general and local, had been resorted to. In the minds of those around, who had repeatedly seen it, there was a difference of opinion, whether the sore was, or was not smaller since his arrival. I ordered all local applications, excepting lint moistened with cold water, to be discontinued, and prescribed for him half a grain of solid opium to be taken internally, night and morning. In three days it was evident that the sore was about to undergo some change, the secretions were improving, and the general tone of colour, as artists term it, was heightened. At the termination of the first week, the sore secreted healthy pus, and its base was covered with what Mr. Pott would have called, a florid incarnation. At the end of the second week, a second important change was in progress. The elevated margin was being reduced, and the granulations were rapidly rising towards its level. In one month, this antique sore, E 2