A painful, local inflammation of the skin, caused by infection of a hair follicle. Usually, a hard core and pus are present.
1 Blood from the arm at a distance from the furuncle remained completely sterile.
2 Blood from the inflamed base of the furuncle remained sterile.
3 On June thirteenth I made cultures of the pus from a furuncle of this man.
4 Third observation.-Thefourteenth of June, a new furuncle appeared on the neck of the same person.
5 Second observation.-Onthe tenth of June a new furuncle made its appearance on the right thigh of the same person.
6 Right out there, a couple of hundred miles off the Oregon coast, is a sort of granulated furuncle growing on the face of the water.
7 Thus I saw, that it corresponded exactly with the organism of furuncles .
8 I am convinced that among them would be found growths of the micro-organism of furuncles .
9 Fifth observation.-Julytwenty-first ,Dr.Maurice Reynaud informed me that there was a woman at the Lariboisiere hospital with multiple furuncles .
10 Two-thirds of the patients with S. aureus infection had furuncles , which were located on the limbs in 82% of cases.
11 Misfortunes are no new things; yet a man suffering from furuncles will often speak as if Job had never known anything about them.
12 The lochia were full of the pyogenic vibrio and of the organism of furuncles , although there was but a small proportion of the latter.
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