eusol

[ yoo-sawl, -sol ]

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eusol¹

1910–15; E(dinburgh) U(niversity) sol(ution)

Example Sentences

She began repacking his face with clean gauze soaked in eusol.

From Literature

The wound should be purified with eusol, and the surrounding parts painted with iodine.

From Project Gutenberg

The treatment consists in immediately cleansing the wound by excising grossly damaged tissue and removing any foreign body that may have lodged; disinfecting the exposed part of the joint cavity with eusol, “bipp,” or other antiseptic, and closing the wound or establishing drainage, according to circumstances.

From Project Gutenberg

Treatment.—When suppuration ensues, the stitches should be removed, the wound opened up and purified with eusol, and packed.

From Project Gutenberg

After the message went, it seemed that our friend could not last till their arrival, and the colonel decided as a last chance to try intra-venous injections of Eusol, the powerful antiseptic in use at that time in all the hospitals.

From Project Gutenberg