suppurate

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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

Supp′urātive, tending to suppurate: promoting suppuration.—n. a medicine which promotes suppuration.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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 swelling may gradually disappear or begin to suppurate.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)

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