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

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M0007813: Dressing for abscess with drainage tube, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882)

M0007814: Abscess dressing from behind, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882) / M0007815: Lumbar abscess dressing from behind, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882)

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.

M0007816: Hip joint abscess dressing, from Cheyne: Antiseptic Surgery (1882)

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. ; distribuidores 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.

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.

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

I. Ovarian abscess and pyosalpinx. II. Pelvic abscess / by Francis Imlach.

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Abscess

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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

I. Ovarian abscess and pyosalpinx. II. Pelvic abscess / by Francis Imlach.

Abscess

Images from the collections

Images referencing Abscess

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

I. Ovarian abscess and pyosalpinx. II. Pelvic abscess / by Francis Imlach.

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