2 Verbs to Use for the Word festers

Before they retired Madame Guix asked if there were any who felt the slightest ill, for it were better to nip sickness in the bud, and she cheerfully lanced festers and pricked blisters, bathed, powdered and bandaged the feet of some dozen old and decrepit men and young children unaccustomed to such forced marching and unable to take proper care of themselves for want of time and hot water!

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

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  festers