cataplasm
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By a continuation of this plan the wound gradually contracted, and, at length, when there was no further use for the cataplasm, the eschar became adherent and the sore healed underneath.
From An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers by John Higginbottom
To counteract the damage, pharmacy has gone forth with medicament, panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve, and cataplasm.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by William Harrison Ainsworth
Some of the leaves and small branches are pounded, and applied in that state as a cataplasm to both arms; the skin having been previously scarified freely above the elbows.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.
From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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