Irritants
drugs that act locally on cutaneous or mucosal surfaces to produce inflammation; those that cause redness due to hyperaemia 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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