cataplasm
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It will be easier to bear than the cataplasm I should have given you, had your apprehensions been well founded.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by William Harrison Ainsworth
The caustic and cataplasm were applied.—A similar report was made on the 22d.
From An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers by John Higginbottom
Clark to a brigadiership, and then my nephew will succeed to the colonelcy; which will be a sufficient rebuke to Gen. H., and a cataplasm for my nephew’s wounded honor.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
"Don't! try not to cry any more! the thing to do now is to go and give her a spoonful of quinine; then we will put a cataplasm on her stomach."
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
If peeled and pounded in a mortar, uncooked Potatoes applied cold make a very soothing cataplasm to parts that have been scalded, or burnt.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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