fomentation

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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 administration of a mild aperient or an enema, rest, starvation and fomentation will probably put matters right again—at any rate for a time.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Remedy.—Bleeding at the toe, physic, fomentation, and blisters, are the usual means adopted.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service?

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus