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CARBUNCLE (Lat. carbunculus, diminutive of carbo, a glowing coal)

CARBUNCLE (See also:
LAT
Lat. carbunculus, diminutive of See also:
CARBO
carbo, a glowing See also:
COAL
coal) , in See also:

MINERALOGY

mineralogy, a See also:

garnet (q.v.) cut with a See also:

CONVEX

convex See also:

SURFACE

surface. In See also:

MEDICINE

medicine the name given to an acute See also:

LOCAL

local inflammation of the deeper layers of the skin, followed by sloughing. It is accompanied by See also:

GREAT

great local tension and by constitutional disturbance, and in the See also:

early stages the See also:

pain is often extremely acute. A hard flattened swelling of a deep-red See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is noticed on the back, See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face or extremities. This gradually extends until in some instances it may become as large as a See also:

DINNER

dinner-See also:

PLATE

plate. Towards the centre of the See also:

mass numerous small openings See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form on the surface, from which See also:

BLOOD

blood and See also:

MATTER

matter See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape. Through these openings a yellow See also:

SLOUGH

slough or " core " of leathery consistence can be seen. Carbuncle is an intense local inflammation caused by septic germs which have in some manner found their way to the See also:

PART

part. It is particularly See also:

apt to occur in persons whose See also:

HEALTH

health is depressed by See also:

MENTAL

mental worries, or by such troubles as chronic disease of the kidneys or blood-vessels, or by See also:

DIABETES (from Gr. &a, through, and faivecv, to pass)

diabetes. The attack ends in See also:

MORTIFICATION

mortification of the affected See also:

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue, and, after much suffering, the core or mortified part slowly comes away. The See also:

MODERN

modern treatment consists in cutting into the in-flamed See also:

AREA

area, scraping out the germ-laden core at the earliest possible moment, and applying germicides. This method relieves the pain at once, materially diminishes the See also:

RISK

risk of blood-poisoning, and hastens convalescence.

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