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

Warm water held in the mouth frequently, as a fomentation to the inflamed throat.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

For a moment I, just able to do a poultice or a fomentation, resented it.

From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid