cocaine

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An anesthetic solution of cocain or novocain may be applied to the metacarpal or metatarsal nerves and an entirely satisfactory examination is then possible.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

If further anesthetization of the bronchial mucosa is required, cocain may be applied in the same manner through the bronchoscope.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Its situation and immobility, its pink colour, and the shrinkage under cocain, distinguish it from the mucous polypus of the nose.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

If there is much swelling, the introduction of a 5 per cent. solution of cocain will facilitate the examination by diminishing the congestion of the mucous membrane.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Lament for, specimen of New Zealand poetry, iii. 131Nicobar archipelago, ii. 1-137Niemann, Dr. Albert, his discovery of cocain, iii. 406Nopal plantations.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von