poultice

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After the opening, a poultice should be applied to cleanse the ulcer; after which it should be daily washed with the compound tincture of benjamin, and dressed with calamine ointment.

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  1. noun A soft moist mass of bread, meal, clay, or other adhesive substance, usually heated, spread on cloth, and applied to warm, moisten, or stimulate an aching or inflamed part of the body. Also called cataplasm.
  2. transitive verb To apply a poultice to.

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  • I thought that would do It then occurred to her that the smoothness of her face might betray her; so she decided to make another poultice, and put it in a white handkerchief to be worn under the chin, up the cheeks, and to tie over the head. —  Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
  • The old healer says the captain rests well after applying that smelly poultice, and his fever seems to have broken, too. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • I have heard the term poultice applied to the suet pudding more than once in casual conversations in the exercise ground. —  Prisoner for Blasphemy
  • When a poultice is put on they seem obliged to come out possibly from want of air: they can be pressed out, but the large pimple in which they live is painful; they were chiefly in my limbs. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • With great difficulty (he afterwards told me) he had the night of his arrival obtained a poultice, the application of which had given him such relief that he had dropped asleep. —  The Grateful Indian And other Stories
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  1. Middle English pultes, from Medieval Latin pultēs, thick paste, from Latin, pl. of puls, pult-, pottage; see pulse2.

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  1. Early modern English also pultis, pultesse; from Old French as if *pultice, from Middle Latin *pulticium, poultice (cf. Old French pulte = Italian polta, poultice, Italian also poltiglia, formerly also pultiglia, pap, porridge, formerly also poultice), from Latin pul(t-)s, thick pap, porridge: see pulse.
  2. from poultice, n.
 

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