impostumes

Updated: May 19, 2025

Confesse to one of us what rancke and foule impostumes Have bred about your soule. What Leprosies Have run ore all your Conscience. What hott feavers Now shake your peace of mind. For we are come To cure your old Corruptions. We are come To be your true and free Physitians. Without the hope of gold, to give you health. To sett you on your feete on the right way. To Palestine, the New Jerusalem.

Various - A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2

Some of these poor wretches have been known to gnaw the flesh of their own arms, in the agonies of torture; and many of them have died with internal impostumes.

Benjamin Waterhouse - A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.: Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was: Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred: And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island,: Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At: Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes: And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political: Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct: Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre: Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.

And hence the love of griefs; not such as should sink deep into me; for I loved not to suffer, what I loved to look on; but such as upon hearing their fictions should lightly scratch the surface; upon which, as on envenomed nails, followed inflamed swelling, impostumes, and a putrefied sore. My life being such, was it life, O my God? And Thy faithful mercy hovered over me afar.

Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - The Confessions of St. Augustine