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poultice

[pohl-tis] / ˈpoʊl tɪs /


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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

In that case, Forguson recommends applying a broad-spectrum poultice.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022

She suggests making a violet leaf infusion or poultice for soothing an eye irritation or injury.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021

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

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2017

He remembered when he got chicken pox how Aunt Queen had made a warm poultice out of something she found in the garden, and the itch had disappeared.

From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper

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

Carefully dry the skin, and wear a piece of new flannel, for a time, over the part poulticed.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

I have poulticed his nose, as she directed.”

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

I was again inspected about this time by a stranger doctor, and immediately after he left, my leg was lanced and poulticed.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Frank Henderson

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

This will often yield to the spinal rubbing and poulticing mentioned above.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

Let it be said, however, that as our journey advanced the hoof, at first so tender from much poulticing, became firmer and firmer, and instead of increasing, the lameness rather grew less.

From My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard

Without expansion there is no possibility of relief; local bleeding, poulticing, and all the drastic drugs of the veterinary will be invoked in vain.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell




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