Sentence:  ... after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the <WSD>catling</WSD>; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.