pustules

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The technique, which had long been used in China, India and Africa before arriving in North America, involved injecting the live virus from a smallpox sufferer’s pustules into a healthy person.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Its appearance can vary, ranging from whiteheads and blackheads to pustules and nodules, mainly on the face, forehead, chest, upper back and shoulders.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

The young director Owen Kline packs worlds of cringe into “Funny Pages” — shame, disgust, embarrassment, sweaty sexual panic, acres of pustules — it’s all here in this terrific, tonally flawless feature debut.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

The dog had lesions on its skin and mucous membranes, pustules on its abdomen and a thin anal ulceration.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

Pure-gold bracelets, polished just once, showed the tin underneath; some of the beauty creams gave you vivid red pustules all over your face.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell