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Webster 1913 Edition


Vesicatory

Ves′i-ca-to-ry

(?; 277)
,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
vésicatoire
.]
(Med.)
Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
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Noun.
A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vesicatory

VES'ICATORY

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Noun.
A blistering application or plaster; an epispastic. Vesicatories made of cantharides, are more powerful than sinapisms, or preparations of mustard.