Externally, vesicant; used in form of ointment, or tincture. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Following this, a vesicant is employed and the subject is allowed a month's rest. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgi-tant, a sternutatory, and a vesicant all in one. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Reduction having been affected, the application of a vesicant over the whole patellar region is customary. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Following the acute stage of such an infection, any local counter-irritating application or even a vesicant is in order. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Line-firing, instead of the vesicant is made use of by some, but the object desired is the same and results obtained are similar. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
In these cases, subjects may be put into service after all swelling which the injection or the vesicant has produced has subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
A vesicant was applied; the mare was put to pasture and within sixty days from the date of the injury she was being driven on short trips. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Later the mare was turned out to pasture and a vesicant was applied once or twice a month until recovery was complete which was in about six months. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
If little inflammation exists, the application of a vesicant two or three weeks after the injury has been inflicted will be helpful and serve to hasten repair. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
After-care consists in restriction of exercise and, if necessary, confining the subject in a sling and the application of a vesicant over the scapulohumeral region. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
There had been improvements since the First World War—fleets of airplanes could “spray large areas with vesicant liquids not only on military personnel but upon the civilian population as well.”. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
There is no occasion for any difference in the treatment of either of the first three classes of ringbone, but in the rachitic type where treatment is given, the application of a vesicant is all that is required. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
If no marked swelling results within forty-eight hours the entire fetlock region is thoroughly vesicated and, as soon as the skin has recovered from the effects of the vesicant, pressure bandages may be employed. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The root is vesicant and is used by the natives for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The root is vesicant and the Filipinos bruise it and use it for sinapisms. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It is a powerful vesicant, causes severe blistering even in small quantities. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
When it acts as a vesicant, it has not the disadvantage of producing strangury. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Even those who wore the mask were attacked by the vesicant or blistering influence of the gas. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
The vesicant action of mustard gas produced huge casualties with relatively little permanent harm. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
As a vesicant, producing counter irritation, and controlling Inflammatory action, as explained above. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The leaves contain an irritant and acrid principle that renders them vesicant when applied to the skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Dr. Ashby speaks of it as a prompt and powerful vesicant when bruised and applied to the surface as a poultice. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The combination of the vesicant and persistent properties of mustard gas rendered it a powerful military factor. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
It melts at 26° and decomposes at 200° forming a colorless oil; it is not vesicant, burns with a dark flame, and has the odor of rancid oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
In the whole of them the bulb is the most active part, and any one of them may supply the place of the other; for they are all irritant, excitant, and vesicant. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
It was the introduction of the fourth, the vesicant class, which revealed, more than any other enemy move, the great possibilities inherent in chemical warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The French Physiological Classification; -- Asphyxiating Substances; -- Toxic Substances; -- Chemicals or poison gases were either asphyxiating, toxic, lachrymatory, vesicant, or sternutatory. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
It is not generally known, however, that other vesicant compounds were employed, notably some of the arsenic compounds, and the Germans were researching on substances of this nature which gave great promise of success. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
Nitrate of Silver is not only a powerful vesicant or destructive, but by substituting a new and more controllable action of its own for the one existing in the part, it serves as a valuable auxiliary in the treatment of Inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The pericarp of the nut contains an essential oil which is very irritant and used by the Hindoos as a vesicant; it severely blisters the lips and tongues of imprudent persons who break the nut without taking the precaution of cleansing it of the oil before opening it. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Dr. Dymock has prepared an ethereal tincture of the leaves and obtained with it results very different from those just mentioned; this is not surprising in view of the fact that the tincture holds in solution in a small quantity of ether, a considerable amount of the vesicant principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Cardol, according to some authors, does not exercise a vesicant action in the gastro-intestinal canal, because it is not dissolved by the gastro-intestinal juices; I am sure, however, that I have seen a choleraic diarrhoea brought on by swallowing, in fun, the pericarp of one nut and a half. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
We refer to its vesicant action. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
Ayurveda, pacifies kapha dosha (pungent, light, dry, sharp), anticancer, antifertility, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-oxidant, prevention of antibiotic resistance, immunomodulator, anti-coagulant, abortifacient, vesicant, rheumatism, diarrhea, diuretic, skin conditions; precautions: pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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