Abscess
An abscess gathers what the body cannot hold quietly — and in dreams it often mirrors trouble that has built up out of sight. Yet the older books read it hopefully too: sickness preceding good health, the painful release that clears the way. The dream may ask what has been left to fester, and whether it is finally ready to drain.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abscess, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you have an abscess which seems to have reached a chronic stage, you will be overwhelmed with misfortune of your own; at the same time your deepest sympathies will be enlisted for the sorrows of others.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream you have an abscess, or running sore on your person, it foretells good fortune and good health, to be preceded by sickness.