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Definition of Eyewashes
1. eyewash [n] - See also: eyewash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyewashes
Literary usage of Eyewashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1889)
"... gargles, and eyewashes ; formulae for suppositories ; use of the thermometer
in disease, poisons, antidotes and treatment ; directions for post-mortem ..."
2. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"... which were recognized by one of the laborers as a seed used by the present
California Indians and natives in making demulcent drinks and eyewashes. ..."
3. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"... cloths over the face, and even by the use of astringent eyewashes and the
injection of similar liquids into the lacrimal canal from its nasal opening. ..."
4. A Treatise on Pharmacy by Edward Parrish (1884)
"Sassafras medulla, the pith of sassafras officinale. Forms with water a rich
mucilage ; used in eyewashes and in Jackson's ..."
5. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene: For Educational Institutions and by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison (1904)
"eyewashes, too, are made from solutions of lead, and many an eye has been ruined
by their use. They deposit a white metallic scale on the surface of the eye ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"Acetate and subacetate of lead in solution, have been used as external applications
to inflamed surfaces, and scrofulous sores, and as eyewashes. ..."
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