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From the Townsend Letter
April 2016

Chronic Wound/Diabetic Ulcer Healing/Surgical Healing: A New Plant-Based Treatment Clinically Effective in Just 30 Days
by Brian Scott Peskin, BSc; Amid Habib, MD;
and Jeff Matheson, MD

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