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THE

London

MEDICAL GAZETTE;

BEING A

CWeekly Journal

OF

MEDICINE AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. II.

FOR THE SESSION 1839–40.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1810.

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CORNS.

LECTURES

responds to the centre, the chorion is depressed, or even perforated.

Corns are

inorganic, simply formed of thickened PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF cuticle: this thickening is produced by a

vice of secretion, and this vice of secretion SURGERY.

is produced by pressure exercised by ill. Delivered at the Westminster Hospital School, fitted shoes. This pressure prevents their

outward extension, so that they compress BY BENJAMIN Phillips, F.R.S.

the chorion and subjacent nerves, cause Surgeon to the St. Marylebone Infirmary. acute pain, and may, at last, thin, and

perforate the chorion. A first means of DISEASES OF THE SKIN (concluded.)

cure is to wear easy shoes. The acute Warts, Corns.

pain may be moderated by cutting away DISEASES OF THE CELLULAR TISSUE.

the exuberant part with a sharp knife. Furuncle Anthrar.- Tumors. – Lipoma, En. The central point or eye may be very often cysted Hydatid, Sarcomatous. Fibro. Nervous? removed after soaking the foot in warm Their Causes, Symptoms, Nature, and Treat- water, Plasters of many kinds will be

found useful in treating corns, provided DISEASES AND INJURIES OF ARTERIES.

the patient, at the same tiine, reform his General Remarks.

shoes. It is well to relieve the central nucleus from pressure: this may be done

by applying upon the part a piece of doe. Corns are a circumscribed thickening of leather spread with adhesive plaister, with the epidermis of the toes. They are ob- a hole cut in the centre large enough for served at the dorsal surface, at the more the corn to press through, cutting, from prominent joints, between two toes, at the week to week, the prominent part. They external, rarely at the internal, border of may be destroyed by caustics-nitrate of the foot-generally, at all points subjected silver, caustic potash, nitric acid, &c.; to pressure. They are almost always but, in inexperienced hands, this class of flattened, inserted, as it were, into the remedies may be found hurtful. skin, are gradually formed, and do not Attract attention until they have acquired a certain volume, when they occasion lan- Warts are not always, like corns, a cinating pungent pain, as if a nail were simple epidermic secretion. The chorion driven into the part. Sometimes they and the rete mucosum appear simultacomnience by being acute, especially in neously affected. When we cut vertically persons with delicate skin. The pain is a large wart, the cuticle is seen progresihen acute, and, if cut into, a serous fluid sively to increase in thickness up to the escapes, the suffering diminishes until centre of the wart; the chorion is thickened they acquire the ordinary characters of like the epidermis, and sends into its coros. Pathological anatomy shews, us, thickness prolongations, which are called when we cut or extirpate a corn, the skin roots. In cutting into a great many warts, sensibly depressed. If we macerate the we always see in their substance blackish toe of a dead person wbich has a large points. 'In superficial warts the corpus corn upon it, after a short time it is easily mucosum seems alone to be affected, removed ; the centre of it enjoys considera- Pressure is not always the cause of warts. ble tenacity, and, at the point which cor. It is said that the blood which they fur. 643.-XXVI.

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WARTS.

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