Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1149

SIR EVERARD HOME (1756-1832) Practical observations on the treatment of ulcers on the legs. Edward Parker 1811 1st American ed. xxiii [1] [25]-297 pp. 17.3 cm.

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A pupil and brother-in-law of John Hunter (see No. 968 ff.), and later his associate for over twenty years, Home was professor in the Royal College of Surgeons and, for thirty-four years, surgeon at St. George's Hospital. He served as the first president of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1821 was appointed surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, the coveted position which Hunter failed to obtain. The present work was first published at London in 1797 and has here been reprinted from the second London edition of 1801. Home noted that ulcers of the leg had an adverse effect on army manpower because soldiers frequently had to be discharged as unfit for duty. Home opens the work with a lengthy discussion of the properties of pus and continues with a review of the treatment of various types of the malady. He also includes chapters on the treatment of varicose veins in the legs and the efficacy of using ligatures to treat hemorrhoids.

See Related Record(s): 968

Cited references: Austin 929; Cushing H440; Waller 4864 (2nd London ed., 1801); Wellcome III, p. 294 (2nd London ed.)