cataplasm
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Treatment.—At the onset complete rest should be provided and the local application of some good cataplasm is in order.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Make a cataplasm of bean meal and salad oil, and lay it to the place afflicted.
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 Philip Henry Gosse
The chief medicinal use of onions in the present practice is in external applications, as a cataplasm for suppurating tumours, &c.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Treatment.—In all contused wounds of the coronary region the parts need thorough cleansing; the hair, if long is clipped and a cataplasm is applied.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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