embrocation

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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

Having bathed, rubbed their necks with embrocation, and well shaken their clothes, they strolled out on to the verandah, where Barton was waiting for them.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

All along the Ganges, Brahmahputra, and Indus, the oil is universally considered as of great value as an embrocation in rheumatism and for giving much strength when rubbed on the back and loins.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

And if an embrocation may be used with good effects in the latter case, why may it not be used in the former?

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph

It is used chiefly in India mixed with oil as an embrocation for rheumatism; given internally it is regarded as an antisyphilitic.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers