[The characteristics of suppurative wounds treated with xenogenic splenic homogenate]

The authors discuss the results of treatment of 60 patients with persistent purulent wounds by applications of pig spleen homogenate (30 patients) and by the commonly accepted method (30 patients). The cytologic and microbiological data studied during the course of the wound process in both groups are analysed. The terms of cleansing, regeneration, and epithelialization of the wound surface were analysed comparatively; they were found to be 1.5 times shorter in treatment with a homogenate of xenogeneic spleen. It was thus established that a pig spleen homogenate produces a good antiinflammatory and necrolytic effect and absorbs the detritus, microbes, and toxins.