Chancroidal bubo and bubonic chancroid / by J. Macdonald Brown.

  • Brown, J. Macdonald (John Macdonald), 1857-1935.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Chancroidal bubo and bubonic chancroid / by J. Macdonald Brown. 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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    Professor Neumann of Vienna adopts an extremely heroic method for destroying the specific action of the sore. He snips off, with scissors, a considerable portion of the healthy skin around the margin of the ulcer, and rubs Vienna paste thoroughly into its surface. This he does without chloroform. It is a point of no small importance to remember that any case of chancroid may possibly be complicated by a virulent bubo, and that the best method of obviating such a result, is at once to destroy the local sore by nitric acid or other suitable escharotic. Another form of bubo has been described as attending the chancroidal disease—the so-called “bubon d’emblde ” of the French surgeons, where, although no previous local sore existed, a typical bubo gradually appears in the groin. Its existence is extremely doubtful, and by the most eminent English authorities on the subject is absolutely denied. In such cases, probably a small local sore on the genitals escapes observa- tion. By some authors, the term indolent is applied to a subacute form of simple bubo attending chancroid, which occasionally occurs in lymphatic or strumous subjects. Such a term seems to me calculated to mislead, and, I believe, ought only to be employed in describing the glandular enlargement of syphilis. LOR1MER AND GILLIES, PRINTERS, 31 ST. ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBURGH.