4 adjectives to describe festering

"Sundry pins have been taken out the wrists and arms of the afflicted, and one, in time of examination of a suspected person, had a pin run through both her upper and lower lip when she was called to speak, yet no apparent festering followed thereupon after it was taken out.

Stripped itself of all its lush luxuriance, and left for a vestige only this little fester of its gashes.

Let the secret sore fester.

Let the secret sore fester.

4 adjectives to describe  festering