. The principles of surgery . ne. Or an intractableulcer of the soft parts may come to implicate the subjacent osseousstructure ; as in lupus. By some, the affection of bone which follows on the truly malignantulcer or tumour of soft parts is termed caries ; but unjustly. It is atruly malignant or cancerous ulcer ; just as different from true caries,as cancer is from a simply weak or irritable sore. In the tubercular caries, scrofula is of course to be considered as the predisposingcause; any slight ex-ternal injury mayserve for the may inducecaries of the cranialand other bo
. The principles of surgery . ne. Or an intractableulcer of the soft parts may come to implicate the subjacent osseousstructure ; as in lupus. By some, the affection of bone which follows on the truly malignantulcer or tumour of soft parts is termed caries ; but unjustly. It is atruly malignant or cancerous ulcer ; just as different from true caries,as cancer is from a simply weak or irritable sore. In the tubercular caries, scrofula is of course to be considered as the predisposingcause; any slight ex-ternal injury mayserve for the may inducecaries of the cranialand other bones ; thepoison often seemingto enact the part ofboth predisposing andexciting cause. And the samemay be said of mercury ; perhapswith greater truth — at least inthose cases in which that mi-neral has been given both sake-lessly and in profusion. An un-fortunate conjunction of the twopoisons — mercurial and venereal—in a scrofulous system, is theparent of the worst, and not leastfrequent, forms of the disease. Fig.
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