Exposure and protrusion of some of the abdominal organs may also be occasioned by the incautious use of Caustics in the treatment of umbilical or ventral hernia.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
But they were corrosives and Caustics dropped blazing hot upon white men's bare hands and black men's bare feet.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
The repeated application of strong Caustics to chronic inflammatory conditions is, according to Butlin, a determining cause of cancer.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson