Not as bad as we feared, worse than we hoped, but surgical cauterisation should have fixed it, the area was quite small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

They have no soap, no oil, no idea of washing or cleansing a wound, and cauterisation with a hot iron appears to be their panacea for every ailment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

As far as cauterisation of the tissues is concerned, this question has been practically settled in the negative, since actual determinations of the heat immediately after the moment of impact have been made, and again it has been shown that butter is not melted, and that neither gunpowder nor dynamite is exploded, by firing bullets through small quantities of those materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

This process could be best imitated, if cauterisation of the tubes were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fertility of the Unfit] Reference

In some more advanced cases, your vet might advise a mild chemical cauterisation with a five per cent silver nitrate solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stabroek News] Reference

Repeated cauterisation failed to clear it, and having your external genitalia burnt off a few times hoping that "this time it will heal" is ... unpleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [PageOneQ.com Latest] Reference

He stayed in turn in all the hospitals in the city, being treated with every care and consideration, until at last he met with a doctor who insisted on cauterisation and other disagreeable remedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1] Reference

After the secret dancing, and trial by fire, after the procession to ceremonial area and stone cutting, and after the leaf cauterisation, I was now to be instructed of my new responsibilities as a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News] Reference

I think there's a kind of emotional cauterisation that happens when you're taken away from home so young, but that's how they built the empire, you know … But it certainly had an effect on how I relate to people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

At that time real doctors relied on a lot of people getting better just because diseases ran their course, so doing nothing (which is what homeopathy is) probably did less damage than purging, bloodletting and cauterisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

On the other mornings it gave way for a moment; but, still velvety with the refreshment of having slept, my consciousness (like those organs by which, after a local anaesthetic, a cauterisation, not perceived at first, is felt only at the very end and then as a faint burning smart) was touched only gently by the shrill points of the fifes which caressed it with a vague, cool, matutinal warbling; and after this brief interruption in which the silence had turned to music it relapsed into my slumber before even the dragoons had finished passing, depriving me of the latest opening buds of the sparkling clangorous nosegay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

When he at length awoke, beyond being troubled with a dazed feeling and, of course, a considerable amount of pain arising from the cauterisation of the wound, he seemed to be little the worse for his adventure; and when at length the party struck camp and resumed their march shortly after mid-day, he was able to hobble along with the rest, although it was found necessary to relieve him of all work during that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of El Dorado] Reference

A simple cauterisation should suffice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference