WOUND HEALING IN THE SKIN an interaction between environmental conditions and intrinsic factors

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Injuries to the skin are an inevitable tribulation of life, and over many centuries scholars of human medicine from all parts of the world have studied herbal remedies, physical procedures, and surgery to aid healing and to prevent disfigurement.  Cauterisation and wound debridement was practised in the sixteenth century, but not until much later, following the classical studies of Alexander Fleming did antibiotics appear in the clinicians’ vademecum.