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However, before antisceptic surgery was finally and fully established, faith in the practice had to be awakened among the members of the profession.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by Widtsoe, John Andreas

The use of this cement I suppose to consist in its preventing the bud from bleeding to death, though the author ascribes it to its antisceptic quality.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus