cataplasm

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Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Here, one with a bruised limb is receiving a cataplasm; there, a cataleptic patient is tenderly cared for; and so on, through the long concatenation of feline diseases.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

Some of the leaves and small branches are pounded, and applied in that state as a cataplasm to both arms; the skin having been previously scarified freely above the elbows.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

But it does more than all this, it even assuages choler; it is an admirable cataplasm for rage.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert

Presently also it was applied to other parts as a cataplasm.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas