The word "abscess" in literature has been used both as a literal medical condition and as a metaphor for inner decay or corruption. In some works, it refers simply to the formation and rupture of a localized infection—a detail evident in descriptions ranging from minor injuries in everyday life ([1], [2], [3], [4]) to more detailed treatments in medicinal texts ([5], [6]). Meanwhile, in more figurative contexts, authors employ the term to evoke feelings of deep-seated, sometimes moral or spiritual decay. For example, Dostoyevsky uses the imagery of a heart rupturing like an abscess to illustrate acute internal torment ([7]), while Marcus Aurelius describes a soul that dishonors itself by becoming "an abscess on the Universe" ([8]). This dual employment underscores how the concept of an abscess, whether in the body or metaphorically in the spirit, powerfully symbolizes deterioration and corruption in both physical and existential realms.