Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds.
A yeast poultice made by stirring Oatmeal into the grounds of strong beer is a capital cleansing and healing application to languid sloughing sores.
Care must be taken not to bruise the parts with the forceps, as, in such cases, sloughing of the sutured edges will be the result instead of union.
When Huxham came to describe the disease at Plymouth a year or two later, he laid the emphasis on other symptoms than those mostly dwelt upon by Starr, describing really a sloughing sore-throat with rash.
The symptoms of the epidemic were the usual ones of scarlet fever with ulcerated orsloughing throat.
Sloughing of the face, lips or labia, occurred in three children, and bloody stools in many of the worst cases.
The severe type has usually been made by the sloughing in the neck or throat; but there has also been a class of cases tending to a fatal issue early in the attack by a sunken pulse and with few external manifestations.
The morbid anatomy was that of true dysentery--follicular ulceration in the transverse colon, with occasional sloughing of large pieces of the mucous membrane.
When the stricture is very tight, the patient cachectic and irregular in his mode of life, and the case injudiciously or inertly treated, sloughing takes place rapidly, or phagedenic ulceration occurs anterior to the stricture.
Not unfrequently sloughing takes place, both of the skin and of the cellular tissue and fatty matter, with unhealthy suppuration and infiltration; and constitutional disturbance accompanies.
Where the chemosis is so extensive as to bury the cornea, as it were, beneath the folds of the swollen conjunctiva, sloughing of the transparent tunic is frequently threatened.
Sloughing commenced at the apex, and appeared extending backwards; I then isolated the protruded portion of the organ by ligature, and thus removed it in three or four days.
Sloughing of the Cornea should, of course, be prevented, if possible, by subduing the incited action before it has attained such intensity as to overcome the power of the part.
To expedite the sloughing process, allay the unpleasant fetor, and promote the formation of healthy granulations, I know of no remedy that will answer so well as the nitric acid lotion.
The neighbouring parts have their vitality much diminished, by the direct influence of the injury; and hence, when these parts come to be the seat of increased action, sloughing almost inevitably ensues, from the want of corresponding power.
They enlarge, coalesce, and form irregular masses, which rise more and more above the surface; the superimposed integuments give way, and then occur those destructive ravages by ulceration and sloughing already described.
From the exit wound, which was 1 inch in diameter, protruded a piece of sloughing omentum, the margin of the wound being everted and raised over a circular indurated area.
It was thought best to allow the sloughing omentum, which was very foul, to separate spontaneously, and then to return the stump.
I never saw a primary amputation do well that was moved during the first week; sloughing of flaps or hæmorrhage followed as a rule, and often death.
In some similar cases I have seen the central part of the track secondarily laid open as a result of the thinning of the skin and consequent sloughing due to the interference with its vitality.
The most serious impediments to the progress of labour connected with the vagina are the contractions of this canal from callous cicatrices, the results of sloughing and other injuries in former labours.
I have not observed any of the reported bad effects (sloughing and gangrene for instance) succeed this little operation; nor are they likely to occur in an unimpaired constitution.
Because of the erosions andsloughing of the tissues of the mouth, feet and udder it becomes necessary to kill many of the animals.
In the chronic form of the disease ulceration of the intestinal and gastric mucous membrane, inflammation of the lungs and pleura and sloughing of the skin are common lesions.
If the tissues are badly torn or bruised, swelling and sloughing may occur.
A sit-fast is characterized by a large swelling at the top of the neck, followed by a deep sloughing of the tissues.
No benefit results from sloughing and it should be avoided.
Sloughing of tissue is not necessarily productive of bad results but there is occasioned an open wound which usually becomes infected and necrosis of tissue may extend into the articulation.
In a subject that has been down, unable to rise for several days, where there is a suppurative and sloughing condition of the laminae, the temperature is high.
Tents should never be used then in such conditions as carcinoma of the body of the uterus, sloughing polypus, acute endometritis and cervicitis.
When a vaginal leakage occurs a few days after a vaginal hysterectomy, it is probably due to necrosis and sloughing of a ureter, or the duct may have been included in a ligature which has separated by sloughing.
Care must be taken not to fix the blade too far on the anterior flap, or it will lead to subsequent sloughing of the bladder.
The patient survived the accident ten days, and died from sepsis; ‘the entire uterus seemed to be a sloughing mass.
Gangrene and sloughing are to be treated in accordance with the principles recognized as important in the management of these accidents in general.
Trousseau was accustomed in his clinical lectures to call attention to the frequency with which sloughingof the cornea occurred in the condition known as coma vigil, in which the patient lies with his eyes wide open.
There have also been observed opacity of the cornea, sloughing of the conjunctival epithelium, suppurative infiltration into the periphery of the vitreous body, and deposits of pus in Petit's canal and in the anterior and posterior chambers.
Blisters have also been recommended for the same purpose, but they should be used carefully, as in low conditions of the system they are sometimes followed by sloughing of the integuments.
Actual local perforation of the soft palate I have seen but five times in twenty-five years, sloughing without perforation very often.
The ulcers which result from sloughing of the solitary glands are, as a rule, small and round.
The dirt kept sloughing down on us, and we had really gone in too far for our own safety, but the laymen cared little for that.
The roof kept sloughing in on me, and it was mighty dangerous.
Arsenic: in coryza and sore throat simulating hay fever; in sloughing of the throat.
Stillingia: most successful in cases broken down by a long mercurial and iodide course which has failed to cure; improves sloughing phagedenic ulcers.
Silver Nitrate: solution in sloughing of the throat or chronic relaxation; saturated solution an anesthetic and cuts short inflammation.
Chlorine Water: internally; locally insloughing of the throat.
The poison also acts septically, producing at a later period sloughing and hemorrhage.
If we get a splinter in the body, vital energy is aroused to get rid of the offending substance, inflammation is set up, and sloughing goes on until the splinter is voided.
Esophagoscopy should be deferred, in cases of acute esophagitis from swallowing of caustics, until sloughing has ceased and healing has strengthened the weak places.
Through the opening, and filling the cavity, may be seen a piece of sloughing cellular tissue which is called the core.
There it remains as a foreign substance, like a splinter or thorn in the flesh, until ejected by suppuration and sloughing of the surrounding parts.
It may cause a purulent discharge, and in some cases it has been extruded after sloughing of the overlying soft parts.
There is also swelling over the gland, and eventually suppuration and sloughing of the gland tissue and overlying skin.
It occasionally happens that the infection assumes a virulent character and causes sloughing of the prepuce--a condition known as phagedæna.
In others there is sloughing of the flaps and death results from toxæmia.
In its growth, a sarcoma compresses and destroys neighbouring parts, surrounds vessels and nerves, and may lead to destruction of the skin, either by invading it, or more commonly by causing sloughing from pressure.
As subcutaneous and intra-muscular injections cause considerable pain, and may cause sloughing of the tissues, "606" preparations must be injected intravenously.
The special risks of these wounds are: (1) Sloughing of the bruised tissues, especially when attempts to sterilise the wound have not been successful.
Inflammatory and suppurative changes may take place as a result of pyogenic infection following upon sloughing of the overlying skin or upon an exploratory incision.
The pus infiltrates the meshes of the cellular tissue, there is sloughing of considerable portions of tissue of low vitality, such as fat, fascia, or tendon, and if the process continues for some time several collections of pus may form.
It is also met with in the groin following on inflammation and suppuration of the inguinal glands, and cases are recorded in which the sloughing process has implicated the femoral vessels and led to secondary hæmorrhage.
But how they finally freed themselves and their mound of that viscid, sloughing monster I should be glad to know.
When a thick coating of this impromptu bird-lime had been exuded, the snail wriggled right and left a few times, partly sloughing it off, and thus ingulfing hundreds of its antagonists.
Sloughing may take place; the entire sheath or patches upon the body may slough off and there may be paralysis of the penis.
I may add that in the above affection it is a bad practice to apply hot applications, as the chances are it would produce a sloughing of the skin.
In cases where deep sloughing has taken place under the horny structures, saturate a piece of oakum or cotton in the following liniment: Oil of Origanum, Oil of Pisis, Oil of Turpentine, each four ounces.
The Phlegmonous Erysipelas affects the whole thickness of the skin and cellular tissues beneath it, producing swelling, and not unfrequently, resulting in suppuration, ulceration or gangrene and sloughing of the parts.
In sloughing ulcer of the bladder it is used to separate the lips of the perineal wound: Quod si antequam vesica purgata est orae se glutinarunt, dolorque et inflammatio redierunt, vulnus digitis vel averso specillo diducendum est (VII.
In contused wounds, unless they be perfectly aseptic, we usually find sloughing of the contused, necrotic tissues.
The eschar which results is not dry and leathery, as in a burn by heat, but soft and readily sloughing away.
If you do not want to see the rash and sloughing of throat, with a dead patient, I would advise you to train your guns on the blood, nerves, and lymphatics of the fascia and stop the cause at once, or quit.
Inflammation may be accompanied by sloughingor death of tissues.
The surrounding skin is indurated, of a dusky red color and dirty or sloughing in for some time, they loose their characteristic appearance and take on the form of simple chronic ulcers.
Lesions of circumscribed contour result in the sloughing away of the area involved and never require amputation.
It must be borne in mind that sloughing and ulceration of the skin are liable to follow the use of cold.
The base is indurated, of a dusty red color and dirty or sloughing in appearance, the slough being often of a greenish color.
Protonuclein is of value in treating areas of infection, particularly when sloughing exists.
The graft is always thinner at its edges than at its centre, and it is these thin edges which overlap each other or the margin of the skin; there is no real sloughing of these overlapping portions.
Revulsives must be used with caution in cases of shock or coma, lest impaired vitality or sensation to pain result in extensive sloughing of the skin.
This condition spreads over the entire ulcer, which assumes a sloughing and foul character.
It is very irritant to tissues and carbolized dressings may be responsible for the sloughing of a wound.
There may be also severe hemorrhage as in any sloughing wound.
This treatment should be repeated every other day until there is sloughing at the base of the growth.
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