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Styptic  adj.  (Written also stiptic)  Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.






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"Styptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... holds its place in the Materia Medica. Others which formerly had a reputation are now discarded, as, for instance, the species of Elaphomyces; and Polyporus officinalis, Fr., which has been partly superseded as a styptic by other substances, was formerly employed as a purgative. The ripe spongy capillitium of the great puff-ball Lycoperdon giganteum, Fr., has been used for similar purposes, and also recommended as an anodyne; indeed ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... relief." He said, and in his arms upheld the chief. The slaves their master's slow approach survey'd, And hides of oxen on the floor display'd: There stretch'd at length the wounded hero lay; Patroclus cut the forky steel away: Then in his hands a bitter root he bruised; The wound he wash'd, the styptic juice infused. The closing flesh that instant ceased to glow, The wound to torture, and the ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

... was found. I possessed myself of the powder and shot belonging to one of the savages, and loaded it. Thus equipped for defence, I regained the road, and proceeded, with alacrity, on my way. For the wound in my cheek, nature had provided a styptic, but the soreness was extreme, and I thought of no remedy but water, with which I might wash away the blood. My thirst likewise incommoded me, and I looked with eagerness for the traces of a spring. In a soil like that of the wilderness around me, nothing was less ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown



Words linked to "Styptic" :   alum, medicine, astringent, styptic weed, medicament, medication, medicinal drug, hemostatic, astringent drug, stypsis



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