imposthumes

The air is counted salutary in catarrhous consumptions, from its dryness and elasticity: but too sharp in cases of pulmonary imposthumes.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The men complain much of sore eyes and imposthumes.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

Far from being the final outcome of a slow, deliberate accretion in the states they had absorbed, we see in them the climax of conflicting humors, the splendid cancers and imposthumes of a desperate disease.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

And it is well they cannot be reached by argument and so persuaded; they would but enter the circles of the faithful to work fresh schisms and breed fresh imposthumes.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

Then follow violent inflammations and imposthumes, which sometimes assume so serious a character that the amputation of the foot becomes necessary.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear -- striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

` ` Eneugh said --- eneugh said, Reuben, 'said David Deans, with internal exultation; ` ` and say that ye were in the predicament whereof I hae spoken, of a surety I would deem it my duty to gang to the root o the matter, and lay bare to you the ulcers and imposthumes, and the sores and the leprosies, of this our time, crying aloud and sparing not.' '

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

The saline substances which we have mentioned continue to appear; and the men are much afflicted with sore eyes and imposthumes.

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. William Clark 1804

Biles and imposthumes are very common among the party, and sore eyes continue in a greater or less degree with all of us; for the imposthumes we use emollient poultices, and apply to the eyes a solution of two grains of white vitriol and one of sugar of lead with one ounce of water.

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. William Clark 1804

"Eneugh said -- eneugh said, Reuben," said David Deans, with internal exultation; "and say that ye were in the predicament whereof I hae spoken, of a surety I would deem it my duty to gang to the root o 'the matter, and lay bare to you the ulcers and imposthumes, and the sores and the leprosies, of this our time, crying aloud and sparing not."

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801