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![[ 7^2 ] [ OF ULCERS. Ulcers may be the confequenc^ of wounds, 1 lilies, or impoRhumes improperly treated ; bun th^ generally proceed from an ill ftate of the hu- mours, or what may be called a bad habit of body. When this is the cafe, they ought not to be hailily dried up, otherwife it may prove fatal to the patient. Ulcers happen moil commonly in tne decline of liie ; and perfons who negleft ex- ercife, and live grofsly, are moil: liable to them, I hey might often be prevented by retrenching' fbme part of the folid food, or by opening artifi- cial diains, as ilTues, fetons, or the like. An ulcer may be diftinguilhed from a wound by its dilcharging a thin watery humour, which is often fo acrid as to inflame and corrode the flrin ; by the hardnefs and perpendicular fituation of its fides or edges, by the time of its duration, dec. It requires confiderable flcill to be able to judge when an ulcer ought to be healed, and when not. In geneial, all ulcers which proceed from a bad habit of body fliould be fuffered to continue open at leaft till the conflitution be lo far changed by proper regimen, or the ufe of medicine, that they feem dilpolcd to heal of their ovvn accord. Ul- cers which are the efFed; of malignant fevers, or > pther acute dilealcs, may generally be healed with iafety](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721907_0756.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
