cataplasm
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However, shalt have a good biting cataplasm for thy leg; meantime keep we the body cool: put out thy tongue!-good!-fever.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Monsieur Recamier has submitted to the Academy of Medicine a galvanic cataplasm, by which, when it is applied to the skin, the benefit of electricity is fully conveyed, without the least pain.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
Some of the leaves and small branches are pounded, and applied in that state as a cataplasm to both arms; the skin having been previously scarified freely above the elbows.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
The caustic and cataplasm were applied as before.—A similar report was made on the succeeding day.
From An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers by John Higginbottom
The chief medicinal use of onions in the present practice is in external applications, as a cataplasm for suppurating tumours, &c.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
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