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

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

We could also apply a poultice of whatever is around.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2020

Benrejdal later returned and applied a make-shift poultice of takeaway leftovers to the arm.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2017

This was the result of the Swanburne hair poultice that was applied on a regular basis, to repel lice and fleas and encourage healthy scalps, according to school policy.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

Hatteras knew something of surgery, and under his directions Walker poulticed and bandaged him until he recovered.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Henrietta Dansie, nurse, was examined, and said that deceased had been suffering from boils on his right arm, one of which she had poulticed on Wednesday, the day before he had examined the diseased animal.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

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 Michener, Charles B.

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

Where the trouble has lasted for years, it may be slow to heal, and the poulticing may be done only once a week.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

Sixteen hours after I arrived, everything having been done in the meantime that had ever been heard of by the parents, even to poulticing the wound with entrails of a black chicken.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

"Run-around" is treated also by iodine, cold applications, and, if inflammation continues, by hot poulticing and incision with a knife; but poulticing is often sufficient.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm