Crossword-Solution: EPISPASTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epispastic | a. | Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering. |
| Epispastic | n. | An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory. |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Cantharides, or Spanish flies Cantharides, or Spanish flies, when used internally, are diuretic and stimulant; and epispastic and rubefacient when applied externally.
Talked about epispastic paralysis at the Society the other night--confused it with liquor epispasticus, you know.
Dioscorides praises the leaven of wheat as being heating and epispastic, and suiting with complaints of the heels, phymata, and furunculi.
Dioscorides describes it as being possessed of a heating, fiery, epispastic, and discutient power, in pessaries and fumigations as promoting menstruation and the expulsion of the fœtus; he recommends it externally, for furunculi and other complaints of the skin, and internally for chronic coughs, dyspnœa, asthma, ruptured and sprained parts; its vapour rouses in cases of epilepsy, hysteria, and vertigo, and drives away venomous animals.
The epispastic are formed from salts, natron, bee-glue, verdigris, leaven, dung, sulphur, turpentine.