Lesion on the surface of the skin or a mucous surface, produced by the sloughing of inflammatory necrotic tissue

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Two hands held on either side of a dark mark on a forearm, to demonstrate the manual treatment of ulcers. Photograph.

The floral emblems of purity are the white lily & the star of Bethlehem : for purity of blood use Frazer's Sulphur Tablets : test them free of charge.

In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.

A young man with an ulcerated face. Lithograph after H. Holbein.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

L'ulcère simple chronique de la vessie : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 13 février 1904 / par Jules Sauvy.

Bidrag til laeren om saar / af Jacob Heiberg.

Beiträge zur Autoplastik der Geschwure.

Principes de chirurgie

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Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

L'ulcère simple chronique de la vessie : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 13 février 1904 / par Jules Sauvy.

Bidrag til laeren om saar / af Jacob Heiberg.

Beiträge zur Autoplastik der Geschwure.

Principes de chirurgie