Editing Abscess (section)

==Society and culture==
The [[Latin]] medical [[aphorism]] "''[[ubi pus, ibi evacua]]''" expresses "where there is pus, there evacuate it" and is classical advice in the culture of Western medicine.<ref>{{Citation |last=Mourits |first=Maarten P. |title=Orbital Cellulitis |date=2023 |work=Surgery in and around the Orbit: CrossRoads |pages=309–315 |editor-last=Gooris |editor-first=Peter J.J. |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-40697-3_19 |isbn=978-3-031-40697-3 |editor2-last=Mourits |editor2-first=Maarten P. |editor3-last=Bergsma |editor3-first=J.Eelco|doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[Needle exchange programmes]] often administer or provide referrals for abscess treatment to [[injection drug users]] as part of a [[harm reduction]] public health strategy.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Tomolillo CM, Crothers LJ, Aberson CL | title = The damage done: a study of injection drug use, injection related abscesses and needle exchange regulation | journal = Substance Use & Misuse | volume = 42 | issue = 10 | pages = 1603–1611 | date = 2007 | pmid = 17918030 | doi = 10.1080/10826080701204763 | s2cid = 20795955 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fink DS, Lindsay SP, Slymen DJ, Kral AH, Bluthenthal RN | title = Abscess and self-treatment among injection drug users at four California syringe exchanges and their surrounding communities | journal = Substance Use & Misuse | volume = 48 | issue = 7 | pages = 523–531 | date = May 2013 | pmid = 23581506 | pmc = 4334130 | doi = 10.3109/10826084.2013.787094 }}</ref>

===Etymology===
An abscess is so called "abscess" because there is an ''abscessus'' (a going away or departure) of portions of the animal tissue from each other to make room for the suppurated matter lodged between them.<ref>Collier's New Encyclopedia, 'Abscess'.</ref>

The word carbuncle is believed to have originated from the Latin: ''carbunculus'', originally a small coal; diminutive of ''carbon-'', ''carbo'': charcoal or ember, but also a [[carbuncle (gemstone)|carbuncle stone]], "precious stones of a red or fiery colour", usually [[garnet]]s.<ref>[[OED]], "Carbuncle": 1 stone, 3 medical</ref>