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  • noun Plural form of vesicatory.

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Examples

  • The most popular although not with the patients vesicatories or blister-raising agents were cantharides or powdered Spanish fly and mustard powders.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • The most popular although not with the patients vesicatories or blister-raising agents were cantharides or powdered Spanish fly and mustard powders.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • The most popular although not with the patients vesicatories or blister-raising agents were cantharides or powdered Spanish fly and mustard powders.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Notwithstanding all their care, the wretched Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very unfavourable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesicatories to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines to be administered.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • After which vesicatories should be applied to the (sa) me part, and a purulent discharge obtained by appropriate use of the

    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson

  • My love to Johnnie, tell him that I did not allow them, or rather that they were not permitted, to bleed me; that I wear vesicatories, that I am coughing a very little in the morning, and that I am not yet at all looked upon as a consumptive person.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Notwithstanding all their care, the wretched Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very unfavourable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesicatories to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines to be administered.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • Notwithstanding all their care, the wretched Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very unfavourable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesicatories to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines to be administered.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02 Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • The two vesicatories did not perform well, "&c. &c.

    Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

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