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Title: An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers

Author: John Higginbottom

Release Date: December 4, 2007 [EBook #23729]

Language: English

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ON THE

LUNAR CAUSTIC.

AN
ESSAY
ON THE
APPLICATION
OF
THE LUNAR CAUSTIC,
IN THE
_CURE OF CERTAIN_
WOUNDS AND ULCERS.

BY
JOHN HIGGINBOTTOM,
_NOTTINGHAM_,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
OF LONDON.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
_PATER-NOSTER ROW_.
1826.

T. WHEELHOUSE, PRINTER, NOTTINGHAM.

TO
MY BROTHER-IN-LAW,

MARSHALL HALL, M.D. F.R.S.E.

&c. &c.
THIS LITTLE WORK IS INSCRIBED
WITH
GREAT AFFECTION.

_Nottingham, Jan. 6, 1826._

PREFACE.

The following pages are presented to the medical public with very
humble pretensions. It is chiefly with the minor accidents or diseases
that they have to do; but I shall not consider that I have laboured in
vain, if