fomentation

Prior to his admission he had been bitten on the calf of one leg by a dog, and complaining of pain from this wound, we dressed it with a simple boracic fomentation.

One of the horses was sick, and I was down there giving him hot fomentations with my mate.

Colic may be treated with warm fomentations and carminatives; if it be due to constipation, mild laxatives are to be combined with them.

I cut up a blanket, and when they had heated some water in their poor fashion, showed them how to prepare fomentations, put on the first myself, and bathed his face and hands.

I now set to work to cure myself, which by use of hot fomentations and lint dipped in θ tincture of Belladonna externally, taking at the same time 3d dil.