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
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
She suggests making a violet leaf infusion or poultice for soothing an eye irritation or injury.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
The kind that make a good poultice are the smaller size.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With great technical brilliance, they poulticed inflamed crises again & again with the salve of compromise.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Then her mother, the biggest brother, and Eagle Eye poulticed the throbbing chest, put compresses on the silky neck, and poured one hot drink after another down the reluctant throat of the blue mare.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates
To an idle passerby a group of full grown human beings with their heads and often their bodies completely poulticed in black mud would have been an amusing sight.
From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge
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
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Where the trouble has lasted for years, it may be slow to heal, and the poulticing may be done only once a week.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
When the burn is extensive and deep sloughing occurs, the parts should be treated, like other deep wounds, by poulticing, astringent washes, etc.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Then she opened the door a few inches, and said: "The Herr Doctor can't go out any more to-night; he has gone to bed, and is poulticing his foot."
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
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