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cataplasm

[kat-uh-plaz-uhm] / ˈkæt əˌplæz əm /


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

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

With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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 Bayard Taylor

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

Home and supped with Sir W. Pen and played at cards with him, and so home and to bed, putting some cataplasm to my . . . . which begins to swell again. 6th.

From Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 14: January/February 1661-62 by Mynors Bright




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