The Liverpool and Manchester Medical and Surgical Reports Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... the appearance, age, or previous history of the case to lead one to suppose that he was prone to erysipelatous affections. The cellulitis, however, which ensued was severe, was followed by considerable sloughing, and for a time the life of the man was in peril. This leads me to consider the last objection to this plan of treatment. The chance of directly causing death.--When we remember the cachectic condition which syphilis itself tends to produce in the system, and the local irritation to which mercury is prone to give rise, we cannot wonder at the occasional occurrence of phlegmonous erysipelas, and it must be admitted that in no case is phlegmonous erysipelas unattended with direct danger to life. It is consequently almost certain that if this mode of treatment were to meet with general adoption a fatal case would by-and-by occur, which seems to me to constitute a very grave, indeed, insuperable objection to its acceptance. When we reflect how absolutely safe and eminently successful are the ordinary methods of treating syphilis, it is a necessary moral sequence that a single death directly attributable to the treatment must be fully and finally fatal to any scheme which cannot boast immense advantages over those already in practice. In fine, as I stated at the commencement of this note, I am so well satisfied with other modes of treatment, notably the mercurial bath for private patients and the plan of inunction and the mercurial belt for hospital cases, that I do not see anything to be gained in the adoption of the treatment by subcutaneous injection. ON CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HINGED SHORT FORCEPS. By FRANCIS VACHER. In my paper descriptive of, and remarking upon, a new form of midwifery forceps, issued last year, I stated that though...