fomentation

Example Sentences

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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

The hot fomentation was deliciously soothing, and Miss Ferrers’s manipulations so soft and skillful that Fay was not sorry that her little protest was made without success.

From Wee Wifie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

This is a dog’s way of administering a warm fomentation.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

Should not this treatment give relief, make a fomentation of hops, and apply it to the belly; and give half an ounce of manna.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George