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Excerpt from On the Treatment of Ulcers on the Leg Without Confinement: With an Inquiry Into the Best Mode of Effecting the Permanent Cure of Varicose Veins
Such a superiority may fairly be claimed for the proceeding detailed in the following pages. My own experience, indeed, would lead me to conclude, not alone that ulcers Of the leg, treated in this simple manner, get well as quickly and as soundly as under any other method, but that cases, unmanageable by any other system Of treat ment with which I am acquainted, will promptly yield to its judicious application.
Water dressing to wounds and sores Of every kind is no novel practice; it is not even an im provement Of modern surgery; we find it described by Hippocrates, and may, without much stretch of imagination, presume its origin to have been coeval with the earliest epoch of the cultivation Of the art. Conformably, however, with that con tempt for what is common so deeply rooted in human nature, its very simplicity has at all periods militated against its general adoption; and its restoration to notice, after more than one interval of neglect, has been due to the popularity it had first acquired in the hands Of the charlatan the beneficial operation Of the simple element being ascribed to the virtues imparted to it by charms and superstitious ceremonies. Much has been written on the subject during the last few years.
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