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No, I said it was used for medical purposes, but the substance on the card was a very specific form of the toxin, produced, according to the research assistant who examined it, only by ‘certain vesicating arthropods.’
The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002
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The use of a vesicating ointment subsequent to cauterization invites infection because of the dust that is retained in contact with the wound.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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-- In small puncture wounds the immediate application of a vesicating ointment has given good results, but when infection has taken place to such extent that the animal manifests evidence of intense pain, and lameness is marked and local swelling and hyperesthesia are great, vesication is contraindicated.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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