styptic

We shall put it to rights in a moment, with one drop of styptic—my styptic, or rather my wife's, sir—She makes the water herself.

It is powerfully styptic and astringent; and is used chiefly as an external application in cancer.

Its styptic properties are undoubtedly due to tannic acid, as all the tests I have been able to make prove this to be the case.

Tobacco leaves were used as a styptic by the Indians of Brazil in the sixteenth century.

The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.