sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3

a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing

A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

A crystalline antiseptic compound, with a penetrating odor.

Then I taught a Tibetan how the dressing must be changed and left with him medicated cotton, bandages and a little iodoform. – Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski

The curtains were tightly drawn, allowing only a shimmer of sunshine to creep in and play upon the ceiling; an unknown woman in a nurse's uniform was sitting motionless at the foot of his bed; the air was heavy with the pungent odor of iodoform, and his right arm, tightly bandaged and lying extended upon a wooden support before him, throbbed with burning pains. – Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train

Carbolized vaseline or iodoform ointment will be found well suited to this work. – Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

Antiseptic injections of the teats and udder are often useful, and iodoform in water has been especially recommended. – Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

He could not sleep again because an unfamiliar odour of iodoform irritated his nostrils; he missed something, too, either some noise outside to which he was used or some step near him. – The White Sister by F. Marion Crawford

It smelt of iodoform. – Non-combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay

There still remained a long strip of plaster meant to keep a dressing of iodoform in its place over the cut on his cheek which Mr. Shea's chair- leg had inflicted. – Hyacinth 1906 by George A. Birmingham

Already it was filled with that stench of blood and dirt and iodoform which afterwards used to sicken me as I helped to carry in the wounded or carry out the dead. – The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

They were well, these people, blood ran in their veins, their skin was whole, they breathed air, not iodoform! – The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield

The Ice Pilot washed the wound with heavy fingers and pressed on a pad of salve which was rank with iodoform and arnica. – The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage

Then a pair of black- walnut doors slid back, and on a puff of iodoform Lilly passed between them and they clicked shut again. – Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl by Fannie Hurst

I want to put a small bandage with iodoform on the burn, he says aside, but Lady Ruth hears it. – Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

In order so far as possible to prevent such an unfortunate complication, the wound should be carefully cleansed with a mild solution of carbolic acid, then dusted over with iodoform before the bandages are applied, and cleansed and dressed daily in the same way. – Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

A pungent smell of iodoform came to them up the hatchway. – The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy

Had thought, ever since last night, that I could never be depressed again, but the sight of the ward with nearly fifty empty beds in it, the smell of iodoform and the whole atmosphere of the place had that effect on all of us for a bit. – Servants of the Guns by Jeffery E. Jeffery

When this is done the opening in the sole may be plugged with a little perchloride of mercury, or, better still, with a little piece of tow saturated with a concentrated solution of perchloride of mercury or a solution of iodoform in alcohol and an antiseptic pad of tow or lint placed over all. – Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

A house surgeon and the engulfing odor of iodoform met us at the door of the emergency ward, whither we were led by a nurse. – Blister Jones by John Taintor Foote

There was an odour more oppressive than the smell of incense or the penetrating fumes of iodoform. – Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham