The sudden disappearance of the symptoms in this case after the application of the escharotics to the sores is worthy of observation; it seems to show that they were kept up by the irritation of the ulcers. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I ordered him to bathe his hands in warm bran and water, applied escharotics to the ulcers, and wrapped his hands up in a soft cataplasm. ❋ Unknown (2005)
[Footnote: I mention escharotics for stopping the progress of the pustule because I am acquainted with their efficacy; probably more simple means might answer the purpose quite as well, such as might be found among the mineral and vegetable astringents.] ❋ Unknown (2005)
India_ to curare, alum, chalk, and mercury to arsenic; and in the way of surgical dressings and appliances everything from poultices of human fæces, [4] burying the part bitten in fresh earth, [5] or thrusting the member or entire person into the entrails of living animals, to cupping, ligatures, escharotics, and the moxa. ❋ Various (N/A)
Cicatricial stenosis developing late in life without history of the swallowing of escharotics or ulcerative lesions is strongly suggestive of syphilis, though the late manifestation of a congenital stenosis is a possibility. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)
I mention escharotics for stopping the progress of the pustule because I am acquainted with their efficacy; probably more simple means might answer the purpose quite as well, such as might be found among the mineral and vegetable astringents. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Nitric acid and escharotics generally in this crowded atmosphere, loaded with noxious effluvia, exerted only temporary effects; after their application to the diseased surfaces, the gangrene would frequently return with redoubled energy; and even after the gangrene had been completely removed by local and constitutional treatment, it would frequently return and destroy the patient. ❋ John McElroy (1887)
We cannot too strongly condemn the practice so popular at the present time with physicians generally, of indiscriminately burning all uterine ulcers with strong caustics, such as nitrate of silver, chromate of potassium, and other similar escharotics, regardless of the condition of the general system. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)
The whole secret of his surgery seems to have consisted in the application of bland oils, and leaving nature to operate, without the employment of the ancient barbarous methods of cure, by tents, escharotics, cautery, and heating inflammatory applications; which in modern times, abandoned by surgeons, have been adopted by farriers. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
25I mention escharotics for stopping the progress of the pustule because I am acquainted with their efficacy; probably more simple means might answer the purpose quite as well, such as might be found among the mineral and vegetable astringents. ❋ Unknown (2005)
