Drugs that act locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation; those that cause redness due to hyperemia are rubefacients; those that raise blisters are vesicants and those that penetrate sebaceous glands and cause abscesses are pustulants; tear gases and mustard gases are also irritants.
    

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SEM dust & mucus on bronchus,stereo.,RH

Stinging hairs on a nettle leaf

Irritability : a physiological analysis of the general effect of stimuli in living substance / by Max Verworn.

The theory and practice of counter-irritation / by H. Cameron Gillies.

A mustard sponge / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].

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Stinging hairs on a nettle leaf

Irritability : a physiological analysis of the general effect of stimuli in living substance / by Max Verworn.

The theory and practice of counter-irritation / by H. Cameron Gillies.

A mustard sponge / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].

SEM dust & mucus on bronchus,stereo.,RH