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Updated: January 7, 2026

Butcher, aged 52, has two ulcers a little above the outer ankle, one the size of half-a-crown, the other, of a shilling, of four months duration, which are now in a healing state by the application of cerate and poultice; the healing process is going on very slowly.

John Higginbottom - An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers