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Lunar caustic   /lˈunər kˈɑstɪk/   Listen
Lunar caustic

noun
1.
Silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic.





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"Lunar caustic" Quotes from Famous Books



... death in the sinner by that which is good,—that sin by the commandment might become, might be seen to be, exceeding sinful. The law is like a chemical test. It eats into sin enough to show what sin is, and there stops. The lunar caustic bites into the dead flesh of the mortified limb; but there is no healing virtue in the lunar caustic. The moral law makes no inward alterations in a sinner. In its own distinctive and proper action ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd
... then the use once or twice a day in addition of a very weak solution of caustic, as two grains of lunar caustic to an ounce of water, in bad cases is necessary; but of this it must be left to ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.


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