poultice
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After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up and healed in a month.
From BBC ● May 2, 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
She suggests making a violet leaf infusion or poultice for soothing an eye irritation or injury.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
We could also apply a poultice of whatever is around.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2020
“The poultice worked perfectly,” she thought as she ran the brush through once more.
From "The Hidden Gallery" 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 foot must now be poulticed for one or two days and afterwards dressed with a compress of oakum saturated with carbolic-acid solution or other antiseptic dressing.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Every several days the parts are poulticed, the slough thus removed, and the ointment reapplied, and so on until the diseased tissue has been destroyed.
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
In this case the ordinary shoe is first removed, and the foot poulticed for twenty-four hours to render the horn soft.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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
We wondered afterward if she had personally attended to the cow—in the way of poulticing or rubbing it.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington
The poor girl has been in the village all day, fomenting and poulticing old Mrs Barnes, and if it had been any girl but herself, she would have been tired out long before.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
A teaspoonful of tincture of Guaiacum may be given before each poulticing, which may be done twice a day for an hour.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
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