Topically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a topical manner.

  1.  a. In respect to place; locally. rare. b. Med. In respect to some particular part of the body.

1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. iii. 109. Their dung and intestinall excretions … Topically applyed become a … Rubifying medecine.

1648.  Evelyn, Lett. to Sir R. Brown, 15 June. And now for the news. The scene is Essex, more topically Colchester.

1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. i. 73. An excellent Medicine to be used topically in Gleetings.

1803.  Med. Jrnl., IX. 100. Bleeding, either generally or topically, I never had recourse to.

1845.  Garrod, Mat. Med. (1855), 23. It acts topically on the mucous membrane of the respiratory passages.

  2.  In reference to topics.

1881.  Gentl. Mag., Feb., 252. These letters are arranged topically not chronologically.

1896.  W. D. Mackenzie, in Chicago Advance, 26 March, 445/1. A man who has only preached topically for five years.