Meanings of styptic in English

I was well already, on taking the styptic from her dear hands.

But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.

He removes the toilet paper and dabs the cut with a styptic pencil.

The Sloe has been employed as a styptic ever since the time of Dioscorides.

They call it Mohur: powdered and sprinkled dry on a wound, it acts as a styptic.

Silver nitrate in styptic pencils, allergic reactions to.

So that a styptic-even the famous styptic-can do no more wonders than a good constitution after all.

I smelled the styptic fumes of vinegar, and my skin tightened as she began wiping it over my body.

She took out of her pocket some adhesive plaster, and flakes of some strong styptic, and a piece of elastic.

The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.

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.

So far the wound, which I examined when the woman poured in what I suppose was a styptic, looked healthy and but little inflamed.

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.

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.

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.

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!