styptics

Some drugs, called styptics, possess the power of contracting the walls of blood vessels and also of clotting the blood.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

He then took forth a case of instruments, and, by the judicious and skilful application of pincers, withdrew from the wounded shoulder the fragment of the weapon, and stopped with styptics and bandages the effusion of blood which followed; the creature all the while suffering him patiently to perform these kind offices, as if he had been aware of his kind intentions.

The Talisman 2008

Now, what styptics, what antiphiogistics ought to be employed?

The Mysterious Island 2005

Now, what styptics, what antiphiogistics ought to be employed?

The Mysterious Island 2005

Lemon juice is decidedly beneficial against jaundice from passive sluggishness of the biliary functions; it will often serve to stay bleedings, when ice and astringent styptics have failed; it will prove useful when swallowed freely against immoderately active monthly fluxes in women; and when applied externally it signally relieves cutaneous itching, especially of the genitals.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Staunching the flow of blood with styptics which she gathered among the forest shrubs, she brought water and the wounded man soon revived.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Of their therapeutic value as styptics, I have not had sufficient trial to form an opinion, although, as far as I can judge, they have proved satisfactory.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various

Hippocrates and Hippocratic writers treated hemorrhage by application of cold, pressure, styptics, and sometimes by actual cauterizing; but they knew nothing of the simple method of stopping a hemorrhage by a ligature tied around the bleeding vessel.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

The lower right side of Hawk's face had been torn away as if by some explosion, and blood, darkened by clay and rude styptics, clotted the long beard that naturally fell in a glossy black.

Laramie Holds the Range 1898

He then took forth a case of instruments, and, by the judicious and skilful application of pincers, withdrew from the wounded shoulder the fragment of the weapon, and stopped with styptics and bandages the effusion of blood which followed; the creature all the while suffering him patiently to perform these kind offices, as if he had been aware of his kind intentions.

The Talisman 1894