cataplasm

Example Sentences

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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

Here, one with a bruised limb is receiving a cataplasm; there, a cataleptic patient is tenderly cared for; and so on, through the long concatenation of feline diseases.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

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

Place over this dressing the common cataplasm, or the turpentine ointment, and renew the application every twenty-four hours.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

The caustic and cataplasm were applied.—A similar report was made on the 22d.

From An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers by Higginbottom, John