suppurate

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A milder form occurs, in which the main incidence is on the periosteum; the symptoms are less severe, it does not tend to suppurate, and is usually recovered from.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Sometimes the parotis or maxillary glands suppurate, producing ulcers which are difficult to cure, and frequently destroy the patient, where there was a previous scrophulous tendency.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

When boils progress to the stage where they appear about to "point" then stop and do not suppurate, Echinacea is the remedy.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

These indolent tumours may be brought to suppurate sometimes by passing electric shocks through them every day for two or three weeks, as I have witnessed.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus