vesication

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Treatment.—Many incipient cases of spavin yield to vesication and a protracted period of rest.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

This is attended with severe smarting pain, and will be followed by the deposition of serum under the cuticle, unless applications are made immediately, to prevent vesication, or blistering.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

Firing usually causes prompt recovery from lameness and is a dependable manner of treating such cases but there remains more blemish following cauterization than where vesication is done.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

In some places there was complete vesication, and on its palmer surface the hand lying on the abdomen was completely denuded.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Applied locally to the skin or mucous membrane, it causes redness and later vesication.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various