A drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals.
Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels.
1 I was well already, on taking the styptic from her dear hands.
2 But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.
3 He removes the toilet paper and dabs the cut with a styptic pencil.
4 The Sloe has been employed as a styptic ever since the time of Dioscorides.
5 They call it Mohur: powdered and sprinkled dry on a wound, it acts as a styptic .
6 Silver nitrate in styptic pencils, allergic reactions to.
7 So that a styptic -even the famous styptic-can do no more wonders than a good constitution after all.
8 I smelled the styptic fumes of vinegar, and my skin tightened as she began wiping it over my body.
9 She took out of her pocket some adhesive plaster, and flakes of some strong styptic , and a piece of elastic.
10 The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic , as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
11 Heated sand is applied as a styptic and the patient is dieted with ginger-soup and warm drinks of ginger-water, pork being especially forbidden.
12 So far the wound, which I examined when the woman poured in what I suppose was a styptic , looked healthy and but little inflamed.
13 At that time surgery, especially on board ship, was very heroic; a glass of spirits the only anodyne, and boiling pitch the most reliable styptic .
14 Its styptic properties are undoubtedly due to tannic acid, as all the tests I have been able to make prove this to be the case.
15 Taking out some gauze and a couple of medicated sticks like large styptic pencils, he went to work deftly on the cut over my eye.
16 Then in a moment she passed the elastic under the sufferer's head, drew it over with the styptic between her finger and thumb, and crack!
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