And to throw salt on an already-suppurating wound, stock market futures indicate a singularly ugly opening for Monday morning; current indications show the DOW Industrials down perhaps 300 or 400 points, with proportionately similar sized gaps for other market indices and averages.— US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
The eyeball was suppurating, and the temperature rose to 99° at night.— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
After the infectious condition has been controlled, and the wound is dry, the same plan of treatment is indicated that is employed in the non-suppurating corn.— Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
He said he was very glad I had come, and was much beholden to the King, who had done him so much honour as to send me to him I found him in a high fever, his eyes deep sunken, with a moribund and yellowish face, his tongue dry and parched, and the whole body much wasted and lean, the voice low as of a man very near death: and I found his thigh much inflamed, suppurating, and ulcerated, discharging a greenish and very offensive sanies.— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

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