Meanings of actual cautery in English

Surgery was not very highly developed, but the knife and actual cautery were freely used.

In sub-acute cases, the entire region surrounding the pastern is blistered or the actual cautery is used.

The actual cautery may be beneficially employed for the relief of sub-horny quittor in at least two ways.

Fire is the Arabs' vade mecum; the actual cautery is deeply respected, and is supposed to be infallible.

Banter prescribed the actual cautery, and put the poker in the fire to be heated, in order to sear the place.

In such cases the coronet should be blistered or even fired with the actual cautery, and the patient turned to pasture.

In such cases Gilbert says we shrink from the application of the actual cautery, for fear of injury to the surrounding vessels and nerves.

The actual cautery is a means of producing all necessary inflammation and it should be so employed that sufficient reactionary inflammation succeeds such firing.

It would be impossible to cure her by gentle and persuasive argument; I must speak sharply, the wound must be subjected to the actual cautery.

The production of a deep-seated and acute inflammation with the actual cautery is preferable to any sort of counter-irritation which may be produced by vesicants.