Detergent, lubricating, and discutient; in itch and other skin diseases, &c.
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Discutient; probably one of the most powerful known in syphilitic cases complicated with scrofula.
It is said to be discutient, but is now never employed in medicine.
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One of our most useful anodyne and discutient applications, in painful scirrhous, scrofulous, and syphilitic tumours.