suppurate

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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

This malady makes its appearance on the cow's teats in the form of small pustules, which, after the inflammatory stage, suppurate.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

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

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

The testis in men is also liable to suppurate with great pain, long confinement, and much danger; and lastly the affection of the brain is fatal to many.

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