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vesicatory

NOUN
  1. a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing blisters

How To Use vesicatory In A Sentence

  • Further structural details were not elucidated because ‘the vesicatory characteristics of the oil… precluded further study’.
  • To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.” The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • It is said to be extremely acrid -- even small doses producing a great disturbance of the stomach; employed as a rubefacient in fevers, gout, and rheumatism, and as a vesicatory in removing corns from the feet. 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
  • All the species probably, and certainly several of them, have striking vesicatory properties, so that when rubbed upon the skin they produce inflammation.
  • To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. — “Neutral, indeed,” said the doctor; “so neutral, that I’ll be crucified if ever they declare either for the patient or the disease.” The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • (lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system. Ferdinand Édouard Buisson - Nobel Lecture
  • To this question, he replied, that venesection had been three times performed; that a vesicatory had been applied inter scapulas; that the patient had taken occasionally of a cathartic apozem, and between whiles, alexipharmic boluses and neutral draughts. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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