inunction

• “Such an inunction was, in ancient times, as it still continues to be in many modern countries and contemporary religions, a symbol of the setting apart of the thing or person so anointed and consecrated to a holy purpose.”

  The Symbolism of Freemasonry

• “I suspected the development of _gummata_ on the meninges of the brain and cord, and advised him to use the inunction cure, and to remain at home until he should be well.”

  The Electric Bath

• “If badly swollen, they should be bathed, before inunction, with a decoction of elder-bark and other emollients.”

  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

• “In this way remedies are often introduced into the system by what is known as inunction.”

  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

• “Since the fats used in soap manufacture yield oleic acid, we will have a certain amount of mercuric oleates formed together with stearate and other salts, and for purposes of inunction these salts might be efficient.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

• “The suppliants for aid had to submit to careful purification, to bathe in sea, river or spring, to fast for a prescribed time, to abjure wine and certain articles of diet, and they were only permitted to enter the temple when they were adequately prepared by cleansing, inunction and fumigation.”

  The Evolution of Modern Medicine

• “If the patient desires to conceal the fact that he is taking the inunction, wash the parts worked upon and remove every trace of the proceeding.”

  Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

• “It is astonishing what the inunction of cod-liver oil in connection with the massage will do in some cases of paralysis.”

  Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

• “As trained nurses are often requested by the attending physician to inunct a patient with blue ointment in this affection, and as the author has seen several cases in which the ` ` inunction '' consisted of merely placing the prescribed quantity in the groin or axilla, he considers it proper to here give the correct method of inunction as recommended by Dr. Sigmund.”

  Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

• “The new preparation ` ` Mercury-Vasogen '' is now generally used for inunction and it is far superior to the blue ointment as it works in so much quicker and does not leave a disagreeable odor.”

  Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

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