Examination by a dentist with gray pointed side whiskers that flared and brushed her cheek unpleasantly, revealed a pair of Abscesses gathering within the gum, and for weeks of mornings she lay back to the agony of steel incisions, for the remainder of the day stretching out on her iron bedstead, face to wall.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Two smaller Abscesses formed below the knee, but those gave no great anxiety, not so much as some bed sores on the back and hips.
"Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society"
Joseph Bradford Cox
Frequently associated with the preceding bacteria in Abscesses.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler