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Updated: June 22, 2025
This not only gave a very fine impression but, on an attempt to clean a cancelled stamp, the enamel would wash off, carrying the design with it. Two stamps of Prussia, issued in 1866, are usually said to be on gold-beater's skin.
It had remained stationary a whole fortnight under the ordinary treatment by bandage. I applied the lunar caustic to form an eschar and then the gold-beater's skin. The day afterwards, I found the eschar incomplete and I applied the caustic again. The eschar was still incomplete on the following day, and the caustic was again required to be applied to the denuded parts.
Draper, aged 50, had a small irritable ulcer of the size of a horse-bean, upon the shin, of a month's duration, with surrounding inflammation to the extent of several inches. I applied the lunar caustic to form an eschar and protected it with gold-beater's skin. On the following day, it appeared from the flatness of the surface, that the eschar was adherent; the inflammation remained as before.
The lunar caustic was well applied in half an hour after the accident to each of the wounds, and the eschar was covered with gold-beater's skin. On the next day the eschars were adherent. There was some swelling from the severity of the bruise; but the child made little complaint. On the third day, the swelling remained as before and the eschar adherent.
It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip's ebon head showed like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when he fell so rapidly astern. Stubb's inexorable back was turned upon him; and the whale was winged.
He looked into my eyes again for awhile, took my wrist, and applied his fingers to the pulse. "That action suspended," he said to himself. Then again he placed something, that for the moment I saw it looked like a piece of gold-beater's leaf, to my lips, holding his head so far that his own breathing could not affect it. "Yes," he said in soliloquy, very low.
After we had crossed the railway line beyond Nelthorpe I caught sight of another evidence of the proximity of friends. High above the hills, to the left of the path, hung a speck of gold-beater's skin. It was the Ladysmith balloon. There, scarcely two miles away, were safety and honour. The soldiers noticed the balloon too. 'Those are our blokes, they said.
From this day until the tenth the fluid required daily evacuation; the eschar became adherent, and I allowed my patient to walk about. In about six weeks the eschar was nearly separated and I removed it by the scissors, leaving only a portion adherent of the size of a pea. It had been prevented from being removed from the beginning, by the gold-beater's skin.
There remained a superficial ulceration of the size of half-a-crown. I applied the lunar caustic lightly over the surface of the sore, and then the gold-beater's skin. On the following day, an adherent eschar had formed, and in five days more it dropped off leaving the ulcer quite healed. Mr. C. aged 51, scalded his leg ten days ago on the instep. He applied ointments and poultices.
It must also be particularly borne in mind, that the eschar must be constantly defended by the gold-beater's skin, which must be removed and reapplied at each examination. I have here spoken of ulcers upon the legs.
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