The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 117
This, it is believed, will disappear in time; the hardened tissue around the cicatrix will become softer and more extensible, and the seam of junction, if it does not entirely disappear, will diminish in size, so that at a subsequent period it may be cut out with the knife, and the parts reunited…
Medicine
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