impostume
imposthume

This is th' imposthume of much wealth and peace, That inward breaks, and shows no cause without Why the man dies.

The Lady Loring, and the Lady Maude, thy fair daughter, are in good health; and so also am I, save for an imposthume of the toe- joint, which hath been sent me for my sins.

As he described his condition in the preface "Democritus Junior to the Reader," :"for I had 'gravidum cor, foetum caput' a heavy heart, and hatchling in my head, a kind of imposthume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of."