He ends by a$rming that blisters are general symptoms of carbuncles (33-5), and giving the two causes for their generation (38-40).
The resin from the stems is used to treat bleeding boils, carbuncles, toothache and tuberculosis.
Individual boils clustered together are called carbuncles.
On figure 1, a comparison between a physically acceptable solution and a spurious solution including the carbuncle phenomenon is presented to illustrate the importance of the flaw.
In the first class were staphylococcal infections, which included septicæmia, early acute osteomyelitis, severe carbuncle, cavernous sinus thrombosis or any other life-endangering infection.
I have a case in mind of a person who suffered acutely from a carbuncle on the neck, and who was temporarily incarcerated in a mental institution.
He suffered from gout and in the autumn of 1806 underwent an operation to remove a carbuncle on his breast.
The name may therefore be a reference to a carbuncle gemstone.
