An essay on the application of the lunar caustic, in the cure of certain wounds and ulcers / by John Higginbottom.

  • Higginbottom John, 1788-1876.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on the application of the lunar caustic, in the cure of certain wounds and ulcers / by John Higginbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It may be observed, that the lunar caustic may be regarded, almost without further trial, as an effectual preventive of those cases of irritative fever which arise from local injuries, and probably of the effects of poisoned wounds in ge- neral. I would not, however, in the latter cases, fail to render “ sure doubly sure” by free excision. Might not an adherent eschar be ea- sily formed in those cases of compound fracture in which the external wound is of moderate size, so as effectually to exclude the external air and prevent cutaneous inflammation, and in more respects than one, to reduce the case to the state of a simple fracture.^ This object, if attained, would be important indeed, and I hope the suggestion will