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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    ni ON THE GENERAL TREATMENT OF ULCERS, AND CICATRISING WOUNDS. When an ulcer, or wound, occurring in a healthy sub- ject, presents the characters of healthy action, we should interfere with nature’s processes as little as possible. It should be washed daily, rather for the purpose of pro- tecting the surrounding new skin, than from any advan- tage to be derived to the ulcer itself. It should be covered with some unirritating dressing, which ought to extend beyond the margin of the granulations, and rolled simjylij and lightly. If the granulations become enlarged, they will at the same time become pale. This indicates not want of action, but want of healthy action, or de- ficient energy in the agents of local or direct nutrition. If this state exist but in a slight degree, and forming but a small proportion of the whole surface, whether of ulcer, lacerated or incised wound, burn or stump, the surface may be exposed to the air for a quarter or half an hour, or even longer, and then dressed as before. If the trans- parent granulations are very luxuriant, more particularly if