[100] Keeping this skin dry has a tendency to prevent ulceration, and abate the redness and inflammation. The cerussa may sometimes be advantageously mixed with an eighth part of powdered camphire, which promotes the removal of the superficial inflammation.
[101] Bell on Ulcers, p. 471.
[102] Bell on Ulcers, p. 427.
[103] This application forms a very useful remedy for the scrophulous ulceration of the eye-lids, which we so frequently meet with.
[104] This substance is the basis of a celebrated lotion for the face, which is sometimes useful in chronic pustules, which are frequently of a scrophulous nature. It promotes suppuration, the pustule then scabs, and, when this falls off, the part is sometimes found sound below. It is made by dissolving corrosive sublimate in an emulsion of bitter almonds.
[105] Laurent. de Strum. Nat. p. 67.
[106] Although the affected gland becomes rather larger, yet the surrounding cellular substance sometimes diminishes, and the neighbouring glands are rather contracted, in which case the part seems to be shrunk.
[107] This abscess sometimes, though very rarely, occupies the whole of the gland, but oftener only a part of it; and if the gland be large, there are sometimes several abscesses, of considerable size, which form unconnectedly with each other, and burst separately.
[108] It has been said, that genuine cancer is very rare in the uterus, and that the cases which pass for such are phagedenic. But although the uterus may be affected with scrophulous inflammation, and phagedenic, as well as some other specific affections, yet it must be admitted, from an examination of cases, that the uterus is very frequently attacked with true cancer. Its substance is found enlarged, hard, and containing cancerous abscesses in different parts.
[109] To this specific affection, we may give the name of pseudo-cancer, for want of a better designation.