On the use of pepsin in the treatment of acute suppuration

The presence of a large number of patients with acute suppuration in polyclinics for the insured requires, in connection with the payment of the time of their incapacity for work, the application here of methods that shorten the duration of treatment as much as possible. By testing various methods, we have come to the conviction that it is necessary to limit the use of incisions and to make them as short as possible where they are absolutely necessary, because if there is an incision, once the symptoms of the main suffering have disappeared, we have before us a wound, until its complete healing the patient in the vast majority of cases cannot be sent back to work. We cannot ignore the painfulness of dressings after the incision, especially in case of tamponade, as well as the not always satisfactory cosmetic result. The desire for possible conservatism on its part leads to attempts to try various physical and biological methods and a number of antiseptic substances.