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vesicatory, n. and a. Med.|ˈvɛsɪkeɪtərɪ, vɛˈsɪkətərɪ|
[ad. med. or early mod.L. vesicatorius, -orium (whence F. vésicatoire, It. vessicatorio, Pg. vesicatorio, Sp. vejigatorio), f. L. vēsīca: see vesicate v. and -ory.]
A. n. A sharp irritating ointment, plaster, or other application for causing the formation of a blister or blisters on the skin; = blister n. 3.
Very frequent from c 1650 to c 1780; now somewhat rare.
1604F. Herring Mod. Defence 18 Vesicatorys to be applied neere vnto the most principall Part. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius i. vii. 32 You must apply a Vesicatory to the fore part of the head. 1676T. Garencières Coral 58 Carrying in his pocket a vesicatory made of cantharides. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 38 It can't be done by Vesicatories without some Pain. 1752Phil. Trans. XLVII. 504 These were blistered slightly, by means of a small vesicatory. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 310 A vesicatory applied to the affected part, constantly relieved the pain, and produced the desired effect. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 7 The leaves of Knowltonia vesicatoria are used as vesicatories in Southern Africa. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 561 Epispastics, vesicatories, or, more colloquially, blisters.
B. adj. Of the nature of a vesicant; capable of, characterized by, raising blisters.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 173 The use of Vesicatory medicines; namely, Cantharides in painfull swolne limbs. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 43 If you duly perpend what I lately mentioned, of the transmutation of water into hot and vesicatory substances. 1817Kirby & Sp. Entomol. II. 227 The vesicatory beetles..are not improbably defended from their assailants by the remarkable quality..that distinguishes them. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 59 The cerambyx moschatus, which possesses a vesicatory power nearly equal to that of the lytta. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 102 Many of these beetles [sc. Meloidæ] possess strong vesicatory powers. |