Localized collection of pus that has built up within the tissue of the body

Cosedal, terapeutica de la tos por el bromuro de codeina : Midasul tabletas de sulfanilamida ... / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.

A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.

Levante las defensas : Micoseptil, estimulante de las defensas orgánicas / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.

Levulosil : Nervional : combinación de sedantes asociados al acido ascorbico / Laboratorio Dr. Domingo Plasencia, S.A.

Two syringes with a public warning about the importance of needle sterilization to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Fiji and World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.

Sulfamil : emulsión estable de aceite en agua que contiene 5% de sulfatiazol "Frosst" / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; representantes exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.

Thyroid abscess : thyroidectomy, recovery / by Joseph Ransohoff.

De abcessu [sic] linguae : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgicae, quam, Deo juvante, & praeside M. Theobaldo-Stephano Lauverjat ... / tueri conabitur Justus Bodin, dissertationis auctor.

An essay on the cure of abscesses by caustic, and on the treatment of wounds and ulcers : with observations on some improvements in surgery. Also a new method of introducing mercury into the circulation, for the cure of the lues venerea: with the remarks of Dr. Hunter and Mr. Cruikshank, professors of anatomy, in support of this practice / By P. Clare, surgeon.

17 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, sistens observationes ad abscessum bursalem pertinentes : apud interrogationem publicam, prolocutas et sustentatas, die Julii 11, A.D. 1801, habitam : quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi Josephi Willard ..., et honoratorum et reverendorum curatorum et etiam senatus academici consensu : nec non institutionis medicae decreto pro gradu doctoratus / eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Ingalls.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

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Thyroid abscess : thyroidectomy, recovery / by Joseph Ransohoff.

De abcessu [sic] linguae : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgicae, quam, Deo juvante, & praeside M. Theobaldo-Stephano Lauverjat ... / tueri conabitur Justus Bodin, dissertationis auctor.

M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

Abscess

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Works from the collections

Thyroid abscess : thyroidectomy, recovery / by Joseph Ransohoff.

De abcessu [sic] linguae : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgicae, quam, Deo juvante, & praeside M. Theobaldo-Stephano Lauverjat ... / tueri conabitur Justus Bodin, dissertationis auctor.

M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

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