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Definition of Blistering agent

1. Noun. A toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote.

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Literary usage of Blistering agent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Ph. It forms a convenient blistering agent. ... and castor oil 160 grs., are added and agitated till they are dissolved. Used as a blistering agent. ..."

2. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics and prescription writing by Henry Morris (1906)
"Externally it is used as a blistering agent, almost to the exclusion of other remedies. It must be remembered that poisoning may result from its local ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... as a blistering agent, that although we have no personal experience of it, we shall, on his authority, briefly notice it. It is prepared, when required, ..."

4. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"When a blistering agent with very rapid action is required, as in the state of collapse in cholera, recourse may be had to the application of boiling or ..."

5. Lippincott's Pocket Medical Dictionary: Including the Pronunciation and by Ryland W. Greene (1897)
"A blistering agent. Vesica' tlon. Act of blistering ; state of being blistered. ... Blistering; a blistering agent. Ves'lele (v«s'i-kl). ..."

6. Medicines, their uses and mode of administration by John Moore Neligan (1864)
"Its only advantage as a blistering agent is that it operates speedily, ... In diseases of the urinary organs it should be preferred as a blistering agent to ..."

7. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Ph. It forms a convenient blistering agent. ... and castor oil 160 grs., are added and agitated till they are dissolved. Used as a blistering agent. ..."

8. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics and prescription writing by Henry Morris (1906)
"Externally it is used as a blistering agent, almost to the exclusion of other remedies. It must be remembered that poisoning may result from its local ..."

9. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... as a blistering agent, that although we have no personal experience of it, we shall, on his authority, briefly notice it. It is prepared, when required, ..."

10. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"When a blistering agent with very rapid action is required, as in the state of collapse in cholera, recourse may be had to the application of boiling or ..."

11. Lippincott's Pocket Medical Dictionary: Including the Pronunciation and by Ryland W. Greene (1897)
"A blistering agent. Vesica' tlon. Act of blistering ; state of being blistered. ... Blistering; a blistering agent. Ves'lele (v«s'i-kl). ..."

12. Medicines, their uses and mode of administration by John Moore Neligan (1864)
"Its only advantage as a blistering agent is that it operates speedily, ... In diseases of the urinary organs it should be preferred as a blistering agent to ..."

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