The treatment of surgical inflammations : by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan.

  • Jordan, Furneaux.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The treatment of surgical inflammations : by a new method, which greatly shortens their duration / by Furneaux Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    hard, and infiltrated. There was an opening about the size of a sixpence, from which very unhealthy looking pus was exuding. It had existed nine days, and had been repeatedly poulticed without relief. Patient stated that her sufferings had been so great, that she had scarcely had an hour's sleep for the past week, and her looks fully confirmed her statement, for a countenance more expressive of pain and continued sleepless nights, I never saw. Taking the margin of hardness as the point beyond which I should not go, I made a semi-circular ring on the upper part of the affected breast with the liniment of iodine. I con- tinued the iodine well over the corresponding clavicle, and extended the paint laterally, and thus included a pretty extensive surface. I enveloped the breast in cotton wool, and then applied, as firmly as possible, without causing pain, a flannel bandage, with a view not only of taking off the weight of the breast, but of exciting compression upon it. On Feb. 3, my patient called to see me. I was struck with her altered appearance—the pale, haggard look was gone, and she had quite a colour in her cheeks. Upon my asking her how she was, she said, with a smile, 0, sir, I think I am well. Scarcely crediting quite so satisfactory a con- dition, I proceeded to examine the breast, and found her statement literally true, the hardness and infiltra-