fomentation
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The cause of this fomentation of tourists was a gleaming, new, $750,000 Latter-day Saints Temple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Concerned that Fanny was not improving, Emma and Elizabeth sent for the apothecary, a Mr. B., who “ordered fomentation with poppy heads,” Emma noted.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
After thoroughly examining her red and swollen eye, he prescribed a fomentation, which he made up himself at once, and tearing his handkerchief in pieces, he showed her how it ought to be applied.
From Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The pain seemed similar to that which he had felt in his leg, which had been relieved by the application of the boracic fomentation.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
At four this morning I was awakened to have a fomentation on my leg, and drowsily realised it was Christmas Day.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
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