Crossword-Solution: REPELLENTS 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

After all the experiments made and repellents used for the plum curculio, the jarring method is found the most efficient and reliable, if properly performed.

Naphthaline cones act as repellents to these insects and also to some extent retard the development of the larvæ in all stages and particularly of the eggs.

The very basis and foundation of an abscess being a cavity continually enlarging internally by the propulsive force of matter collecting within, will sufficiently demonstrate the inconsiderate folly, and extreme obstinacy, of endeavouring to repel, by the interposing and improper power of spirituous repellents, or saturnine astringents, what Nature is making her most strenuous efforts to discharge.

Cutaneous disorders not properly eradicated by MERCURIALS or ANTIMONIALS, but injudiciously thrown upon the circulation by REPELLENTS; the sudden absorption of a plentiful flow of milk, when a colt is taken from the dam; an extreme plethora, with a fizey viscidity of the blood; or any of those causes which too much relax the texture of THE SOLIDS, or impoverish and stagnate THE FLUIDS, may be more immediately or remotely productive of this disease.

Influenced by the deceptive impression of _imaginary_ success, he begins with mild _repellents_, drying _washes_, sharp _waters_, strong _astringents_, then _styptics_, and lastly MERCURIAL or VITRIOLIC _caustics_ and _escharotics_, where having reached the utmost extent of his fertile faculties, he is _surprized_, but not MORTIFIED, at finding what he erroneously thought a _remedy_ has proved TEN TIMES WORSE than the original disease.