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

M. M. Venesection repeatedly; diluents; fomentation; the patient should be frequently raised up in bed for a short time, to give opportunity of discharge to the putrid lochia; mucilaginous clysters.

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

Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service?

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

Such as, first, a fomentation on the head with warm water, with or without aromatic herbs, or salt in it, should be continued for an hour or two at a time, and frequently repeated.

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