First recorded in 1905–10
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She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2020
She shook some dusting powder into a plastic tub and the students held it up to the open cage.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2016
Cologne and dusting powder for Magdalene called Lena; a compact for Corinthians; a five-pound box of chocolates for his mother.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
A dusting powder composed of starch two parts, and boracic acid one part, may be dusted on after a cleansing with oil.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
The same applications or a dusting powder of calomel may also be used on moist papules.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
A useful dusting-powder is one consisting of calamine and 5 per cent. salicylic acid; the exsiccated sulphate of iron, in the form of a powder, may be employed in cases which resist this treatment.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Iodol may also be applied to ulcers as a dusting-powder, usually mixed with one to several parts of zinc oxide or boric acid.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
A dusting-powder, consisting of boracic acid with 5 per cent. salicylic acid, may be rubbed into the hands after washing and drying.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
When he returned them to me, I took them home and carefully dusted each on both sides with a certain surgical dusting-powder.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Treatment consists of puncturing the lesions and application of dusting-powder.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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