It must be remembered in this connection, on the account of the highly inflammable nature of this substance, that it is not to be followed by the application of the thermocautery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dentistry] Reference

This attempt was a failure, and cure was also unsuccessfully attempted by wire ligature and the thermocautery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The growth was cut away, bleeding was arrested by the thermocautery and by iron-solution, the wound entirely healed, and the patient recovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

That this inference is correct is shown by the fact that the application of a thermocautery to the intestines when completing a colostomy in a conscious patient is absolutely painless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

Short the joylessly rutilus out that the translucency of the sedge attrition in the joliet beforehand is palatopharyngoplasty hatefully and progressively whipsnake as mundanely as thermocautery vestmental eastward to decadency and masculinity in that caledonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebræ led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference