When the cornea is affected, the pustules frequently give way, and produce ulceration; and when the pustules are numerous, and surrounded by much vascularity, the part becomes opaque as well as ulcerated.
After the pustules have been fully developed, its use is to be discontinued till the surface be nearly whole, when it is again to be resumed, if the recurrence of painful feelings should demand it.
Nature puts it in operation in small-pox, for example—how favourable it is for the pustules to come out, and to what danger is not the patient exposed if they are repelled.
The papular and pustular eruptions are sometimes blended; a few pustules appearing amongst numerous papulæ, or vice versâ.
During the first days of the attack, pustules are, it is said, observed under the tongue, but there is no apparent change in the glands.
That is the distinction between confluent smallpox and discrete; and the most probable explanation of "flox" is that it stands for the confluent kind, or for the pustules that run together into a clear bladder.
The means to prevent pitting was usually to open the pustules with a golden needle; that is the Arabian advice, and all the Arabists copy it.
If the blood be more pituitous, the pustules are variform, white, round and full of a kind of mucus; but if it be more bilious the pustules break forth more of a dry sort.
Wherever one of these stones struck, there arose an evil wound, and pustules all over.
If he had said so, we might have believed that the disease was actually one bearing pustules which could be opened by a needle.
Without medicines, the pustules upon the body lasted a year or more, like a leprous variola.
Although in the letter quoted there was only a fear that the illness might have turned to the pustulescalled smallpox, yet in the instructions of Henry VIII.
In some instances, especially near the border of the crusts, are seen pustules or suppurating points.
When the suppurative process is active, in order to save the follicles from destruction; incising or puncturing the pustules will often accomplish the same end.
Sycosis begins by the formation of papules and pustules about the hair-follicles; the lesions occur in numbers, in close proximity, and together with the accompanying inflammation, make up a small or large area.
The blackheads, so far as practicable, are to be removed by pressure with the fingers or with a suitable instrument (see Comedo), and the superficial pustules punctured and the contents pressed out.
Scattered minute pustules and some large papules are usually present.
Scattered papules, vesico-papules and pustules may usually be seen upon the involved area or about the border.
In some instances, not more than five or ten papules and pustules are present at one time; in others they may be numerous.
Describe the characters of the vesicles, pustulesand blebs.
Pustules never occur in the several diseases named, except in eczema.
The pustules dry, forming crusts, while the swelling of the skin disappears and the temperature gradually falls.
An unknown poison in the contents of the pustules or crusts in secretion and excretion, apparently, and in the exhalations of the lungs and skin; one attack does not always confer immunity for life.
Pustules with a hard surface appeared upon the skin, generally on the head first.
The pustules of small-pox may interest any portion of the mucous membrane, but are most numerous at the upper portion of the tube.
The pustules may remain distended with pus for a considerable time, after which they may wither and slowly disappear or may rupture and leave ulcerated surfaces.
The pustules from tartar-emetic poisoning are most numerous at the two extremities of the canal.
Or the various formative stages of the pustules may be passed through so quickly that the eruption will be almost entirely pustular, few if any unmodified papules being discovered.
It is contended that the so-called pustules of variolous oesophagitis are really superficial variolous ulcers, the antecedent specific lesions having been lenticular papules merely, with abrasion of the softened epithelial layer.
The spots denuded of pigment left by the pustules on the lips and genitals may temporarily depreciate the value of the animal to a slight degree.
For inoculation the discharge from the pustules of a mild case should be selected and inoculated by scarification on the belly or the under surface of the neck.
The blisters may in part go on to suppuration so that vesicles and pustules often appear on the same patch, and, when raw from rubbing, the true nature of the eruption may be completely masked.
Some of the largest specimens of both sexes have indistinct cream-colored pustules scattered on the ventral surface of the forearm.
The author saw nine such pustules in a case of anthrax in a man.
When the pustules are matured I open them, but I am not certain any great benefit results from this practice.
The darkpustules are to be cut into, which produces no pain; and the pustules are to be freely opened, which operation is attended with no apparent effects.
The other symptoms are not mitigated when the pustules are matured, nor does their appearance denote any particular crisis or stage of the disorder.
But what is very remarkable, both crops of pustules ripened nearly about the same time; for the progress of those which came out first seemed to be retarded by the second eruptive fever, and the latter pustules advanced quicker than usual.
This operated four times, and he was considerably relieved of all his complaints; but fresh pustules now made their appearance on the face and other parts, to the amount of double the number at least of the first.
The youngest, of about five months old, had only five or six pustules in the face, and not more elsewhere proportionably.
The account he gave me was, that he found himself very ill on the evening after his removal, and that he perceived the pustules the next morning.
This he did: by two o’clock the purge had worked thrice, and he was freer from the pain in his back and loins: more pustules now appeared in the face, but scarce any on the limbs.
He had been delirious in the night, but rested a little towards the morning; the number of pustules was now considerably increased.
The pustules were properly advanced, and the man seemed to be perfectly well.
But the generality of my patients, when the eruptions are few, amuse themselves abroad within proper limits, with the pustules out upon them.
The heat was still great, the pulse quick, and many small confluent pustuleswere out on the face and other parts: this was the third day of her illness.
Blebs formed on arms; pustules running into each other, beginning to shrink; matter oozing out.
On breast and arms the eruption is in confluent patches which are nearly continuous--some pustules flat and indented, others smooth, with appearance of radii, and some more elevated forming blebs.
Desquamation going on; pustules shrunk and drying on limbs.
Larynx and trachea injected; but the membrane lining them is entire, without pustules or ulceration.
The vesicles and pustules are, in such cases, flattened, and with indented centres, which latter display at times a dark point or spot, while the edges are of a livid red.
There is no uniformity in the size of the pustules on the body generally, nor any equality among them on a particular part: more usually one larger and fuller is surrounded by others less so.
Some erysipelatous inflammation of the skin; pustulesall nearly disappeared from arms, trunk and thighs; some few, white and soft remain scattered over breast.
This change is completed, and the pustules are entirely formed, after a lapse of time from the first eruptive effort, which varies from the fifth to the ninth day, and is occasionally longer.
On the trunk and extremities, the eruption is either of confluent patches or of pustules dry and flat, with indented centres, the intermediate skin being of a deep red or crimson colour.
The same also cures all ulcers and pustules in the mouth or tongue, or in the secret parts.
When the infestation is severe, the discharge from the pustules mats down the hair, and scabs are formed, under which the insects swarm.
The illustration shows the characteristic indications of the presence of lice, viz: the occipital eczema gluing the hairs together, the swollen cervical glands, and the porrigo, or eruption of contagious pustules upon the neck.
The two small pustules on the wrists arose also from the application of the virus to some minute abrasions of the cuticle, but the livid tint, if they ever had any, was not conspicuous at the time I saw the patient.
The pustules which arose in consequence, so much resembled, on the 12th day, those appearing from the insertion of variolous matter, that an experienced Inoculator would scarcely have discovered a shade of difference at that period.
These pustules are of a much milder nature than those which arise from that contagion which constitutes the true Cow Pox.
There certainly was a difference perceptible, although it is not easy to describe it, in the general appearance of the pustules from that which we commonly see.
They are always free from the bluish or livid tint so conspicuous in the pustules in that disease.
The pustules are sometimes extremely irritating, and it is very hard to keep children from scratching, the results of which may leave deep scars and so should be avoided.
Although usually the pustules are separate and distinct, sometimes in severe cases they run together, so that the hands and face present one distorted mass of suppuration and crust.
They are much more distinct and separated than the rash of scarlet fever and measles, and are much more likely to be mistaken for smallpox pustules than for an ordinary eruptive rash.
The pustuleswhich form in smallpox are first hard and red, and then two or three days later they are tipped with little blisters which later fill with pus and appear yellow.
This is, by the way, a distinguishing characteristic of this disease, differentiating it from smallpox where the pustules are more persistent and where the breaking out is more general.
That Species of the Itch where it forms small Ulcers or Pustules in the Skin, is the worst Kind, and most contagious, and seems to take its Rise from the common Itch continuing long, and making its Way deeper into the Skin.
Day, on the coming on of profuse Sweats, the Petechiae disappear, and vast Quantities of small white miliary pustules break out.
It appears in the form of vesicles, or pustules all over the mouth, occasionally extending to the outside of the lips.
These pustules break, discharging a thin, sanious fluid, leaving minute ulcers in their places.
In the natural and mild form of this disorder the pustules generally break from the sixth to the eighth day; dry scabs succeed; and in about nine or ten days the parts heal perfectly, requiring no treatment.
This will contribute very much to the comfort of the child, by preventing the hair becoming matted together with the discharge from the pustules when they break, which gives rise to great pain and irritation.
The pustules develop from the papular layer of the skin, and contain a yellowish-white pus.
The pustules gradually become darker colored and drier until nothing remains but a thick scab, which at last falls off, leaving only a slight, whitish scar behind.
If calves are allowed to suckle the cows the pustules become confluent, and the ulcerations may extend up into the teat, causing garget and ruining the whole quarter of the udder.
Again, the pustules may appear, one after another, on a single animal, in which case the duration of the disease is materially lengthened.
In more persistent cases it may be found desirable to use a milking tube in order to prevent the repeated opening of the pustules during the operation of milking.
This disease may be recognized by the brown, powdery pustules on the stem and leaves.
In this case the pustules of the fungus are very definite on the under side of the leaf.
The most common and destructive disease of asparagus, producing reddish or black pustules on the stems and branches.
They are Pustules or Blisters fill'd with a white and somewhat yellowish Humour.
If it be an inveterate Pox, the Bones are corrupted, and Exostoses happen therein; divers Spots with dry, round and red Pustules appear in the Skin; and the Cartilages or Gristles of the Nose are sometimes eaten up.
If the Skin be ulcerated, and little Bladders or Pustules arise, an Ointment may be compounded with the second Bark of Elder boil'd in Oil of Olives.
The eruption may last only a few hours or a few days, or, because of the animal's scratching or rubbing the part, the skin may become scabby and small pustules form.
Redness, vesicles and pustules may characterize the inflammation.
The surface of many trilobites is "ornamented" with pustules and spines which on sectioning are nearly always found to be hollow, and in many cases have a fine opening at the tip.
It will be recalled that most of the smooth trilobites are punctate, some of them very conspicuously so, and the spines and pustules of ornamented trilobites may merely subserve the same function as the pores of smooth ones.
Since it is obvious that not all of the pustules of a Ceraurus could have been eyes, the evidence from structure is rather against than for the interpretation of the median pustule as such an organ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pustules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
