Diagnosis of Boils and Carbuncles

No error can pos­sibly be made in respect to these two diseases; in the former  the  hard, deeply-seated   induration, the pain, the central suppuration, and the "core," are distinctive. The manifold openings, the boggy feel, the sloughing, the grumous discharge, and the implication of the cellular tissue in carbuncle are very peculiar. Furonculi are sometimes epidemic.