ULCER

is a discharging sore. It is most commonly met the autumn. with on the leg. It is rare in youth, but common in middle The symptoms consist of the following:—For a week, | age ee oe those whose trades involve much standing, the temperature each night is a degree higher than the night | ¢.g., laundry work. Bad circulation sopaly oaneere by before; there is languor, headache, lo of appetite, disorder | varicoso veins is the chief causo. Our w infirm. of the bowels. During the second week the temperature | aries contain a great number of intractable cases, as the remains continuously about 103° F. The rash appears | ulcers heal with rest in bed and often break down again during this week; it consists of rosy pimples on the trunk, | directly the patient resumes work. The treatment should which come out in crops, last a few days only and fade. | be rest in the horizontal position, and suitable — The abdomen becomes distended; the tongue coated with | treatment of the sore [see Wounds.) When the sore is a red tip; the motions a ume a liquid yellow character; | it may be stimulated to heal with yellow oxide of mercury the mind becomes dull. In the third week improvement | ointment applied to the sore only and not to the healthy occurs in the milder cases, but in the severe cases the third | skin. [For ulcer of the cornea, sce Eye} and fourth weeks are an exaggerated picture of the second [s. 419]