Surgical observations on the treatment of chronic inflammation in various structures; particularly as exemplified in the diseases of the joints / by John Scott.

  • Scott, John.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Surgical observations on the treatment of chronic inflammation in various structures; particularly as exemplified in the diseases of the joints / by John Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He became quite free from pain in a few days after the applications were put on, and continued to improve so much, that I did not see him again for a fort- night. The pain and tenderness were then quite removed, the swelling much reduced, and his health greatly recruited. I renewed the dressings, and on their re- moval, at the expiration of another fort- night, the swelling was entirely absorbed, and he could use the limb as perfectly as ever. A young man living in Fore Street applied to me on the 27th of October with the glands in the right axilla in a state of chronic inflammation. They were swelled, tender, and painful, and one of them had suppurated, but it had not burst. He informed me that about two months before, he had a punctured wound in his finger, which produced inflammation in the course of the absorbents, and a small