shallow, bluish, pigmented dirty, sloughing, inflamed, often granulations, deep, often grayish yellow. sluggish, greenish in color. usually superficial. _Edges_: not elevated or undermined or punched out thin thickened. thickened space, and undermined very irregular. shape, round or serpiginous. _Surrounding area_: red and inflamed. pigmented, varicose dusky red, scars veins, often of old syphilitic edema and eczema. ulcers. _Healing_: rapid under support of veins, mercury and antiseptic operate and remove iodides necessary, treatment. veins. salvarsan or neosalvarsan. +Treatment.+ The treatment of varicose ulcers must be based on antiseptic cleanliness, and the improvement of nutrition by improvement of the circulation of the blood and lymph. Then again the treatment will vary according to the time when the ulcer is first seen by the surgeon. In aggravated ulcers, especially those accompanied by crusts, foul smelling discharges and various inflammatory conditions, the leg should be washed once or twice daily with soap and water, cleansed with a piece of sterile gauze, and shaved when necessary. Warm applications should be employed such as Wright’s solution, boric acid; Thiersch and the stronger antiseptics are uncalled for, as they often induce eczema. Under such treatment, in most cases, the swelling and irritation will subside and the ulcer will become clean and more healthy in appearance, especially if the patient be confined to bed with elevation of the limb. Rest always seems to the patient a useless waste of time, but in reality time is thus saved. It is by far the most important point in the treatment of ulcers of the leg in which poor circulation is a factor, but the plan must be carried out consistently in order to obtain the best results. The condition does not admit of occasionally walking about the house or of sitting in a chair. However, when circumstances do not permit of the recumbent position, the veins can be supported in various ways. Bandages of plain rubber, or rubber cloth, or cloth woven and rendered elastic by the character of mesh, or elastic stockings, or flannel, gauze, or muslin bandages, can be used. It is preferable to use flannel bandage (see Therapeutic measures) for the reasons mentioned. The best means of obtaining the support, however, is by the use of Unna’s Paste. The technic and application of this method of treatment has also been described (Therapeutic measures).