fomentation

Prior to his admission he had been bitten on the calf of one leg by a dog, and complaining of pain from this wound, we dressed it with a simple boracic fomentation.

One of the horses was sick, and I was down there giving him hot fomentations with my mate.

He also says that warm fomentations are to be preferred to cold in aged and infirm persons of feeble circulation.

The whisky had revived him, his pulse was better, the fomentation had relieved the pain, and when it was reapplied he had uttered the word "good."

I now set to work to cure myself, which by use of hot fomentations and lint dipped in θ tincture of Belladonna externally, taking at the same time 3d dil.