A Case of Tropical Sore Cured by Intravenous Injections of Tartar Emetic
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bridge of the nose, and 3 on the left forearm. All of them were ulcerated, that on the nose looking almost like a Hunterian chancre; the three nearer the right elbow were covered with crusts of dried matter and exudation; the two nearer the right wrist, having only lost a little of the surface epithelium, were prominently raised, and of the size of a little more than the circumference of a rupee, looking reddish brown in colour. Those on the left forearm were ulcerated and covered with dry scales. The epitrochlear, axillary, preauricular, and cervical glands could not be felt. The man said he had never been out of
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