ppl. a. Obs. Also 6 fystyled, fystuled, 7 fistuled. [f. FISTULA, fistule + -ED2.] Formed into, or accompanied by, a fistula.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, Pref. 4. Chierurgions muste be circumspecte in serchynge greene woundes that be festered and fystyled, and that they clense and scoure the woundes from al corupcion. Ibid., § 377. Some be playne woundes, & some fystuled, & some be festered.
1656. Earl Monm., Advt. fr. Parnass., 147. Though there be nothing harder then to set bones that have been long broken, wounds that are fistuled, and incurable cancars, yet difficulties which are able to affright others, ought not to make us despair of their cure. Ibid., 155. You go about to mend the arm, when it is the breast that is fistula’d.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 16, 10. One of her legs was all out, or very near as big as my waste, with sundry stinking Fistula’d Ulcers running in it, which I was not able to look on.
