poultice

I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up and healed in a month.

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

Dampen the stone, apply the poultice a half-inch thick, then cover it with plastic and tape down the edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Whatever he’s suffering from, thank goodness the Grand Maester was around to reject the maester intern’s herbal poultice in favor of another leeching.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

I wiped the poultice off my foot with a snotty hanky.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

With great technical brilliance, they poulticed inflamed crises again & again with the salve of compromise.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nurse was fetched; the doctor was sent for; her hand was poulticed, and long before her usual time she was put to bed.

From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

He poulticed a dozen fish with maple leaves and threw them in the glowing coals of his fire.

From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

The foot is now to be poulticed for a day or two, or until the lameness and suppuration have ceased.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

I don’t possess the patience for 10 days of poulticing the patio, so I turned to Iron Out, a plant-safe liquid containing oxalic acid.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cauliflower Growths.—These begin like warts, and in the earlier stages poulticing and soaking with weak acid almost invariably cure.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

But little can be done in the way of treatment, save to hurry the ripening of the abscess and its discharge by steaming with hops, hay, or similar substances and by poulticing the throat.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

I do not say anything about medicine, actual poulticing, etc., because a distemper patient, in view of the complications which are always apt to arise in this disease, should be nursed under skilled veterinary direction.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams