The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions on the leg, without confinement / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The treatment of obstinate ulcers and cutaneous eruptions on the leg, without confinement / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    community whose very existence depends upon a free and vigorous use of their limbs, coupled with the impracticabdity of admitting one-fourth of them into the wards of a hospital for treatment,* ap- peared to me sufficient motives for calling atten- tion to any plan of treatment not requiring con- finement, which, even if not more successful than those heretofore employed, possessed a decided superiority in point of simphcity, cheapness of material, and ready adaptation to the numberless modifications of the disease presented to our notice. Such a superiority may fairly be claimed for the proceedings detailed in the following pages; four years^ subsequent experience of their operation having convinced me, not alone that ulcers of the leg treated in this simple manner get well as quickly and as soundly as under any other mode * M. Parent Duchatelet, in his researches into the causes of the existence of ulcers of the leg among so large a proportion of the Parisian artisans, published in the 4th volume of the “ Annales d’Hygiene Puhlique,” states that, in eleven years, 3373 individuals were received into the hospitals of Paris, with atonic or varicose ulcers on the leg. He fm-ther ascertained, that out of 1565 who sought admission, the half of which were cases of a serious character, for want of room only 337 could he received. Thus 1228 were rejected, considerably more than three-fomlhs of the sum total of those in need of assistance. In London the amount of sufferers from this disease, among the labouring classes, must be far greatfir, and a much smaller quota is admitted into the hospitals.