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infiltrate separating- the neoplasm from the healthy tissue. 

 A forty per cent plaster of pyrog-allol was applied for two 

 weeks. Then boric acid ointment produced rapid healing-. 

 A small ulcer on the edg-e of the nostril was excised and 

 microscopically proved to be much the same in structure. 

 These ulcers are almost unknown in the young-, and but 

 for the microscope, probably would have been misunder- 

 stood. 



Gastric Ulcers. — In a recent case complicated with 

 erosion, microscopical study showed that the mucous mem- 

 brane of the stomach was affected with numerous necroses 

 which could be attributed neither to anemia, bacteria nor 

 blood infarction. They were approximately one millimeter 

 in depth. 



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