vesication

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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

Firing is of no practical benefit in these cases, and it is doubtful if vesication is helpful excepting where only a part of the cartilage is ossified.

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

Applied to the skin it is a strong irritant causing rapid and painful vesication.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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

Various expedients have been resorted to in rebellious cases, such as vesication with ammonia-water, maceration of the skin for some hours with glycerine, and the like.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various