Small, rough growth resembling a cauliflower or a solid blister, often found on hands

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Charles Patin. Line engraving by C. Lefebvre, 1663, after himself.

Charles Patin. Line engraving by C. Lefebure, 1662, after himself.

Warts don't need to be dressed : Glutarol : the effective new treatment for warts.

Plants as wart cures in seventeenth and eighteenth century England / Susan M. Palliser.

De acrothymio, tumoris specie minus cognita : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / auctor Fridericus Otto Beeck ; adversariorum partes susceperunt Hugo Pernice, Otto Joswich.

Anatomie pathologique du verrucome de Carrion / par Edmundo E. Escomel.

Small subcutaneous and cutaneous growths (Series 1)

A collection of recipes for medicinal waters and other remedies, in Latin and Langue d'Oc (Provençal)

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Warts

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Plants as wart cures in seventeenth and eighteenth century England / Susan M. Palliser.

De acrothymio, tumoris specie minus cognita : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / auctor Fridericus Otto Beeck ; adversariorum partes susceperunt Hugo Pernice, Otto Joswich.

Anatomie pathologique du verrucome de Carrion / par Edmundo E. Escomel.

Small subcutaneous and cutaneous growths (Series 1)

A collection of recipes for medicinal waters and other remedies, in Latin and Langue d'Oc (Provençal)