Failure Case Study of Unorthodox Medicine

Abstract

Three original reported cases concerned bone fractures which were so poorly treated as to end with amputation. Also, 25 cases came up as bone setter’s gangrene. The above series pertained mostly to males. In the present series, only males were involved. It would seem therefore that male activity tended to result in lesions, which turned out to be poorly managed. What stood out locally was involvement of the legs with chronicity of the lesions which led to ulceration and then to squamous cell carcinomas. Incidentally, back in 1975, such a lesion was classically called “tropical ulcer”. Incidentally, the conclusion then ran explicitly thus: “We think the etiology may be a combination of the hot humid environment, trauma, local infection and malnutrition. Aggressive treatment of these ulcers is advocated, to heal the wounds and to prevent malignant transformation.” In conclusion, much work was done in the 1980s in several parts of the world. Nowadays, as an Australian research still shows the relevance of the subject. Thus, every contribution on the subject is deemed to be worthy of research, seeing that any observations are still challenging.