poultice

I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Dampen the stone, apply the poultice a half-inch thick, then cover it with plastic and tape down the edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Whatever he’s suffering from, thank goodness the Grand Maester was around to reject the maester intern’s herbal poultice in favor of another leeching.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

Benrejdal later returned and applied a make-shift poultice of takeaway leftovers to the arm.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2017

The one time she had stopped using the poultice, her hair had soon begun to reveal its true color: a striking reddish brown, quite like the color of the children’s hair, and wonderfully shiny, too.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

With great technical brilliance, they poulticed inflamed crises again & again with the salve of compromise.

From Time Magazine Archive

The action is usually sufficient in three days, and the parts are then poulticed until the slough comes away, after which a simple dressing is employed.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

Hatteras knew something of surgery, and under his directions Walker poulticed and bandaged him until he recovered.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

He rubbed, he bathed, he poulticed, he badgered the doctor and cursed his inability to do some good.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter

I don’t possess the patience for 10 days of poulticing the patio, so I turned to Iron Out, a plant-safe liquid containing oxalic acid.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cauliflower Growths.—These begin like warts, and in the earlier stages poulticing and soaking with weak acid almost invariably cure.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

Felix colored perceptibly, but immediately rallied, and said the poulticing had given it that appearance.

From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey

G. got eight bites on one hand, which is serious, and means poulticing.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch