cataplasm
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If peeled and pounded in a mortar, uncooked Potatoes applied cold make a very soothing cataplasm to parts that have been scalded, or burnt.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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 Bayard Taylor
Presently also it was applied to other parts as a cataplasm.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Place over this dressing the common cataplasm, or the turpentine ointment, and renew the application every twenty-four hours.
By midnight Reardon lay in a comfortable room, a huge cataplasm fixed upon him, and other needful arrangements made.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
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