THE TREATMENT OF CARBUNCLE WITHOUT INCISION.

Caustic Potash in the Treatment of Carbuncle

plaint. For, no sooner is it known that the doctor has pronounced some old gentleman to be suffering from a carbuncle, than the friends of the latter would assuredly hint at haviug his " affairs set in order." Statistics, however, do not show the apprehension to be well grounded, and neither have I in my small experience observed the mortality, amongst those who have suffered from it, to be so ...

Treatment of Carbuncle with Penicillin

Treatment of Carbuncle with Excision

Penicillin in the Treatment of Carbuncle

The Treatment of Carbuncle in the Out-Patient Department

The introduction of autohsemotherapy in the treatment of carbuncle has given very good results in my hands, much better than the old method of surgical treatment. The technique consists of injection of the patient's own citrated blood, the amount depending on the area affected, usually about 10 to 20 c.cm. each time, starting about half an inch within the extreme margin of induration and inject...