"Styptic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out of her pocket some adhesive plaster, and flakes of some strong styptic, and a piece of elastic. "Now," said she to Vizard, "give me a little opening in the middle to plaster these strips across the wound." He did so. Then in a moment she passed the elastic under the sufferer's head, drew it over with the styptic between her finger ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... styptic of great power, I shall write a few lines to the Lancet about Caledon and its hot baths—'Bad Caledon', as the Germans at Houw Hoek call it. The baths do not concern me, as they are chalybeate; but they seem very effectual in many cases. Yet English ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon |
