cataplasm
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For outward application make a cataplasm of rue, mugwort, camomile, dill, calamint, new pennyroyal, thyme, with oil of rue, keir and camomile.
Make a cataplasm of bean meal and salad oil, and lay it to the place afflicted.
Place over this dressing the common cataplasm, or the turpentine ointment, and renew the application every twenty-four hours.
Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison
It will be easier to bear than the cataplasm I should have given you, had your apprehensions been well founded.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison