mustard poultice

I learned later that watching a patient have a mustard poultice was a favourite pastime in the ward.

'Ot mustard poultice, me ma always used to say.

Mustard poultices were applied to treat the discharges.

Working beneath the bags, the doctors bind Jack's still twitching calf muscles with clean white handkerchiefs and apply a mustard poultice to his chest.

The various reception procedures and treatments he receives for pneumonia include bureaucracy, a bath, cupping therapy and a mustard poultice.

Her bandaging, nursing and dispensing of cough syrup and ointment, pills, potions and mustard poultices is scorned as mere pretension, a rich woman playing at being Florence Nightingale.

This was very torturing indeed; and I don't think I ever felt such perfect gratification and gratitude of heart, as I did when I heard from the ship's doctor that he had been obliged to put a large mustard poultice on this very gentleman's stomach.