Examples from literature

• After the wart is removed, cauterize the cut surface with a hot iron. 
• If one has reason to believe he has been bitten by a mad dog, the wound should be cauterized as above, and a physician should be summoned at once. 
• She bit her cousin when a child, and the wound had to be cauterized. 
• So he advocated ceasing the practice of cauterizing wounds. 
• With the bar of iron, at almost a white heat, he cauterized the wound.