parasiticide
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Once Mr. Bow spotted the lice, he escorted me to a delousing shower room in the hospital and I washed with a parasiticide that smelled like licorice.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
When warts are numerous and close together parasiticide applications can be daily made to the whole affected region.
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Treatment is entirely local and consists in keeping the parts free from crusts, in epilation and applications of a parasiticide.
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
This excellent parasiticide may perhaps be equally endowed with anti-typhic properties.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
In the Pharmacopœia of India is given the formula for a parasiticide ointment, highly recommended in the treatment of pediculi: Unguentum anamirtæ: 4 grams Cocculus berries, powdered, 30 grams Vaseline.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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