corrosive sublimate

American  

noun

1. Chemistry Now Rare. mercuric chloride.

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corrosive sublimate British  

noun

1. another name for mercuric chloride

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Etymology

Origin of corrosive sublimate

First recorded in 1700–10

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corrosive sublimate

With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, when it is desirable not only to disinfect but also to cleanse the diseased surface, the injections with corrosive sublimate appear to yield a result inferior to less irritating applications.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Now I do not know, by the way, that any one but myself ever suspected, even for one moment, that this attack of erysipelas was caused by the corrosive sublimate.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

He advised me to use, as a wash to the irritated and irritable surface, a weak solution of corrosive sublimate.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Absorbent cotton covered with netting soaked in corrosive sublimate solution applied to external genitals during childbed period.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various