CREASOTE
\kɹˈiːsə͡ʊt], \kɹˈiːsəʊt], \k_ɹ_ˈiː_s_əʊ_t]\
Definitions of CREASOTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A substance discovered not long ago by Reichenbach. It is obtained from tar, by distillatin, and appears to be the active antiseptic and medicial agent in tar-water and crude pyroligneous acid. It is a colourless transparent fluid, of a penetrating and disagreeable odour, and is freely soluble in alcohol and acetic acid. Its taste is bitter. S. g. 1-037. It coagulates albumen, whence its haemostatic power. It is a most powerful antiseptic; and has been largely administered in hemorrhages both internally and externally. As an external application, it has been used in burns, ulcers, especially those of a slonghing character, chronic cutaneous affections, and has been applied to tapeworm protruded, &c. Internally, it has been administered in phthisis, vomiting, diabetes mellitus, nervous diseases, chronio glanders, &c. The dose internally is one or two drops. Externally, it is sometimes applied pure; at others, diluted, and commonly with water, or in the form of ointment.
By Robley Dunglison