1589 J. Banister Antidotarie Chyrurg. Index sig. P2^v Suppurating of tumors.

1612 tr. J. Guillemeau Child-birth ii. xxiv. 181 But in the suppurating of it [sc. the after-burthen], you must haue a care of two things.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. iv. 258 In order to the suppurating of them it is common to pinch them hard.

1723 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia 58 A potent Emollient for suppurating of hard, indurated, glandulous and schirrous Tumours.

1767 W. Bromfield Thoughts from Experience 87 If these are the consequences of virus..remaining in the blood, the suppurating of every critical tumor on the surface of the body seems necessary.

1839 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 52 578 A practice which was prevalent amongst the Egyptians and Arabs, by which they prevented the unseemly scars produced on the exposed parts of the body by the suppurating of the small-pox pustules.

1893 Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg. 106 183 The irritated glands may resent this by suppurating.

1907 Bristol Medico-chirurg. Jrnl. 25 35 By these means we keep the two [perichondrial] flaps in their position and..prevent the accumulation of blood between the layers, which may cause subsequent trouble by suppurating.

2009 R. Maxwell Signora Da Vinci i. 19 I considered visiting a certain cavern where grew a special mold that kept a wound from suppurating.

1601 S. Harward Phlebotomy ii. ix. 119 The augmenting of the paine sheweth how long you must vse suppurating things.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 131 A contused wound..will desire also superating medicines.

1641 J. Home Speech Parl. 16 Aug. sig. A3 Now we see what the Sores are in generall, and when more particulars shall happen to appeare, let us bee very carefull to draw out the koares of them, and not skimme them over with a slight suppurating fester cure, lest they should presently breake out againe into greater mischiefes.

1754 Brit. Legacy 44 If the Swelling comes to Matter slowly, the following suppurating Poultice may be applied hot twice a Day.

1828 J. Ware Pocket Farrier 134 Should an abscess form under the jaws..a suppurating poultice ought to be applied.

1896 Homeopathic World Feb. 61 It is much better to make the abscess open by means of a suppurating ointment.

1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 212 A virulency in the suppurating Pustules.

1739 T. Lobb Pract. Treat. Distempers 104 The Pain is attended with a suppurating Tumour.

1798 W. Blair Ess. Venereal Dis. 227 He never took any thing for his complaints; which at this time were, a suppurating bubo in each groin, with chancres and syphilitic eruptions.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 85 To convert every recent wound into a suppurating sore.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxii. 266 Suppurating pneumonia.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 574 Suppurating corns.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvii. 440 The more dangerous complications are septicæmia or pyæmia arising through infection of the systemic blood-stream from thrombosed suppurating capillaries of the bone-marrow.

1955 L. de Wohl Spear (1957) iv. ii. 299 It was a skeleton, covered with suppurating ulcers, exuding a nauseating stench.

1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 238 The world is festering with suppurating sores.

2004 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 7 Aug. f10 Instinctively, I check my waistband to make sure my shorts have not ridden down and exposed a hideous suppurating lesion.