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  • Biogastrone heals gastric ulcers in ambulant patients usually in 4 - 6 weeks.
  • Two specula for dilating the womb and administering treatments for ulcers. Woodcut, 1560/1600.
  • A man suffering from ulcers all over his body (Job?). Photograph of a sculpture.
  • A man suffering from ulcers all over his body (Job?). Photograph of a sculpture.
  • Ulcers and diseased areas of tissue on the legs and buttocks of a man, with two details showing a cicatrix and an ulcer on the left leg. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • A hand held over a dark mark on a forearm, to demonstrate the manual treatment of ulcers. Photograph.
  • Now here's something out of the ordinary : a safe, simple and positive treatment for mouth ulcers : Corlan Pellets.
  • Dissections of diseased intestines and mesenteries, affected by necrosis, ulcers and tuberculosis: three figures. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Two hands held on either side of a dark mark on a forearm, to demonstrate the manual treatment of ulcers. Photograph.
  • Two hands held on either side of a dark mark on a forearm, to demonstrate the manual treatment of ulcers. Photograph.
  • Duogastrone capsules "...heal duodenal ulcers in ambulant patients, without recourse to expensive and overloaded hospital facilities". Gut 1970, II, 171-175.
  • Duogastrone capsules "...heal duodenal ulcers in ambulant patients, without recourse to expensive and overloaded hospital facilities". Gut 1970, II, 171-175.
  • Ferromyn for the speedy oral correction of all iron-deficiency states : The use of stabilized Trypsin : a new treatment for ulcers abrasions burns pyodermias.
  • Ferromyn for the speedy oral correction of all iron-deficiency states : The use of stabilized Trypsin : a new treatment for ulcers abrasions burns pyodermias.
  • Foot-rot paste : invaluable for foot-rot in sheep, thrush, inflammation or ulcers in horses feet : directions: to be applied to the affected parts.
  • An account of the sore throat attended with ulcers; a disease which hath of late years appeared in this city and the parts adjacent ... / [John Fothergill].
  • Areas of disease on the leg of a patient suffering from syphilis, showing gummatous syphiloderm and ulcers on the right calf. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • A needefull, new, and necessarie treatise of Chyrurgerie, briefly comprehending the generall and particuler curation of Ulcers, drawen foorth of sundrie worthy wryters, but especially of Antonius Calmetus Vergesatus and Joannes Tagaltius ... Hereunto is annexed certaine Experimentes of mine owne invention ... truely tried ... / [John Banister].
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • Trillium sessile L. Trilliaceae Distribution: North America. Various Trilliums were used by Native Americans to stop haematuria, haematemesis, menorrhagia, and to heal ulcers (Milspaugh, 1974). Roots were eaten to treat stiff muscles, and tea from the plant drunk and powdered plant put on joints for rheumatism by the Iroquois (Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 2003). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management I. of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds II. of the several operations performed on all parts of the body III. of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... / Translated into English. By Lawrence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management I. of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds II. of the several operations performed on all parts of the body III. of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... / Translated into English. By Lawrence Heister.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The workes ... Containing I. Chirurgicall lectures of tumors and ulcers. II. A treatise of the first part of chirurgery, which teacheth the re-unition of the parts of the body dis-joynted; and the methodicall doctrine of wounds. III. A treatise of all the muscles of the body of man. Delivered in severall lectures at Barbar-Chirurgians-Hall ... / Published in his life time in severall treatises, and now in one volume, corrected and amended.
  • Polemonium caeruleum L. Polemoniaceae Jacob's ladder, Greek Valerian. Hardy perennial. Distribution: Temperate Europe. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Beck, 2005), and Lyte (1578) recommended it drunk in wine, for malignant ulcers, dysentery, difficulty in micturition, hip disease. The root was worn round the neck to protect against scorpions, and stopped toothache if chewed. Called Valerian Graeca by Dodoens (1551) and Parkinson (1640), Valeriana peregrina Belgarum by Lobel (1576). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.