cataplasm

Example Sentences

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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 Gosse, Philip Henry

Home and supped with Sir W. Pen and played at cards with him, and so home and to bed, putting some cataplasm to my . . . . which begins to swell again. 6th.

From Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 14: January/February 1661-62 by Bright, Mynors

To counteract the damage, pharmacy has gone forth with medicament, panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve, and cataplasm.

From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.

From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

But it does more than all this, it even assuages choler; it is an admirable cataplasm for rage.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert