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All medication, such as poulticing, anointing, and the applications of lotions, is but useless waste of time.
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All medication, such as poulticing, anointing, and the applications of lotions, is but useless waste of time.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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I had become convinced that Ernest was right when he sneered at charity as a poulticing of an ulcer.
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"Then, just as soon as it's light, we'll catch a car into San Jose, rent a room, get a hot breakfast, and go to a drug store for the proper stuff for poulticing or whatever treatment's needed."
CHAPTER IV 2010
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The surgeon is extremely apt to suppose that any suppuration is an indication that the antiseptic treatment has failed, and that poulticing or water dressing should be resorted to.
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The surgeon is extremely apt to suppose that any suppuration is an indication that the antiseptic treatment has failed, and that poulticing or water dressing should be resorted to.
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Every remedy she had ever heard of for the relief of a bruised bone, she tried: bathing, poulticing, fomenting: everything, except sending for the local doctor.
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I reached for the packet of poulticing herbs and folded them into the cloth.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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If this is impossible, poulticing the feet or standing the animal in moist clay will help in relieving the soreness.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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I am still visiting Ruth, as her neck is not yet right; the only thing to do seems to be to go on poulticing it.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow
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