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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



... 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.
... 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


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