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 bandaging and fomentation were most effectually carried out.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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
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 Ross, P. T.
