Possible Clues:

• Old surgeon confined to bed with boils?
• Showing signs of vesication
• Like one with skin problems needing surgeon in hospital unit
• Hit hard, as a baseball
• Surgeon in bed with spots
• Breed around the catalogue and one will need to get pricked
• Famous surgeon in bed suffering from burns?
• Like burnt skin, perhaps
• Severely rebuked for having worn ill-fitting shoes?