vesicatoryn.adj.
/ˈvɛsᵻkət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvɛsəkəˌtɔri/, /vəˈsɪkəˌtɔri/ Medicine.
A. n.
A sharp irritating ointment, plaster, or other application for causing the formation of a blister or blisters on the skin; = blister n.1 3.Very frequent from c1650 to c1780; now somewhat rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [noun]
blister?1541
vesicatory1604
vesicant1661
epispastic1682
epipastic1710
pustulant1861
1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat 18 Vesicatorys to be applied neere vnto the most principall Part.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. vii. 32 You must apply a Vesicatory to the fore part of the head.
1676 T. Garencières Admirable Virtues Coral 58 Carrying in his pocket a vesicatory made of cantharides.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 44 It can't be done by Vesicatories without some Pain.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 504 These were blistered slightly, by means of a small vesicatory.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 310 A vesicatory applied to the affected part, constantly relieved the pain, and produced the desired effect.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 7 The leaves of Knowltonia vesicatoria are used as vesicatories in Southern Africa.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 561 Epispastics, vesicatories, or, more colloquially, blisters.
B. adj.
Of the nature of a vesicant; capable of, characterized by, raising blisters.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for raising blisters > [adjective]
vesicatory1617
vesicating1663
vesicant1826
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 197 The vse of Vesicatory medicines, namely Contharides in painfull swolne limmes.
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 43 If you duly perpend what I lately mentioned, of the transmutation of water into hot and vesicatory substances.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 227 The vesicatory beetles..are not improbably defended from their assailants by the remarkable quality..that distinguishes them.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 41 The cerambyx moschatus, which possesses a vesicatory power nearly equal to that of the lytta.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 102 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Many of these beetles [sc. Meloidæ] possess strong vesicatory powers.
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