fomentation
Example Sentences
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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
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 Erasmus Darwin
Such as, first, a fomentation on the head with warm water, with or without aromatic herbs, or salt in it, should be continued for an hour or two at a time, and frequently repeated.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The hot fomentation was deliciously soothing, and Miss Ferrers’s manipulations so soft and skillful that Fay was not sorry that her little protest was made without success.
From Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
