He was worried and alarmed by his helpless plight, and the wound on his head, instead of Cicatrizing, became more serious, because it was complicated by a sharp attack of fever.
"San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams"
Charles Paul de Kock
This happens when the Vomica is emptied, and is gradually deterged; so that its Membranes, or Sides touch or approach each other; but without Cicatrizing or healing firmly; and then there drops or leaks in very gradually fresh Matter.
"Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health"
Samuel Auguste David Tissot