cataplasm

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Mustard or aromatic cataplasms may at all times be used with hopes of favorable effects.

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There were for external use, amulets, oils, ointments, liniments, plasters, cataplasms, salves, poultices; also sacculi, little bags of flowers, seeds, herbs, etc., and pomanders and posies.

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"Don't! try not to cry any more! the thing to do now is to go and give her a spoonful of quinine; then we will put a cataplasm on her stomach."

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Cupping-glasses, leeches, cataplasms, blood-lettings—in all which things the populace has so blind a confidence—were held in high honour in our hospital.

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True there will be no end of bleedings and cataplasms, but the whole of modern medical science is absolutely thrown away upon them.

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